Benozzo Gozzoli
Italian painter (c.1421-1497)
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- Artists rank#62
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- Artists rank#62
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Lived 1420–1497, aged 77
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Updated 2026-06-09
He painted processions so festive and detailed they turned a private Medici chapel into one of the Renaissance's most magnetic rooms — crowds still packed with color, landscape, and faces that feel like they might turn and speak.
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Born Benozzo di Lese around 1421 in Florence, he trained under Fra Angelico and absorbed both devotional gravity and decorative richness. His breakthrough came with the Magi Chapel murals in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi: a fresco cycle that married International Gothic's ornamental elegance with the Renaissance's new hunger for realistic landscape and human likeness. The work made him one of the most prolific fresco painters of his generation, moving between commissions across Tuscany, Umbria, and Rome. He kept painting until his death on 4 October 1497, leaving walls crowded with a world that…
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