1459-1461
Florence,Palazzo Medici-Riccardi
Four members of the Medici family can be identified amongst the riders;
Cosimo the Elder and ,to the right ,his sons Giovanni and Piero di Cosimo,together with Cosimo's illegitimate son Carlo
Painting ID:: 21192
Benozzo Gozzoli 1459-1461
Fresco wall width
c.750cm
Florence,Palazzo Medici-Riccardi Procession of the Magi (mk08) Italian Early Renaissance Painter, 1420-1497
Italian Renaissance painter. Early in his career he assisted Lorenzo Ghiberti on the east doors of the Baptistery in Florence and Fra Angelico on frescoes in Florence, Rome, and Orvieto. His reputation today rests on the breathtaking fresco cycle The Journey of the Magi (1459 ?C 61) in the chapel of Florence's Medici-Riccardi Palace. His work as a whole was undistinguished, however. He painted several altarpieces and a series of 25 frescoes of Old Testament scenes, now badly damaged, for the Camposanto in Pisa (1468 ?C 84).
