Alesso Benozzo di Gozzoli was from a Florentine family. He was studying painting in 1442, subsequently working for Ghiberti as a sculptor in Florence and as principal assistant to Fra Angelico in Rome and Orvieto (1447). He is recorded in these and various other towns in central Italy. He was almost continually in Pisa from 1468 until 1494 or 1495, and died in Pistoia.
Benozzo Gozzoli
1420/2(?) - 1497
Paintings by Benozzo Gozzoli
This altarpiece was made for the meeting room of the Florentine youth confraternity of the Purification of the Virgin and of Saint Zenobius, which was in the Dominican convent at San Marco.Saint Zenobius and Saint John the Baptist – the patron saints of Florence – are shown on the Virgin’s right-...
Not on display
Probably by Benozzo Gozzoli
The Virgin’s sculptural presence – her voluminous draperies look as though carved from stone – is a moment of stillness in this little panel that rings with colour, pattern and gold details.Gozzoli, who trained as a goldsmith and also painted illuminated manuscripts, was a popular artist among th...
After Benozzo Gozzoli
This painting is based on the main panel of an altarpiece that Gozzoli made for the Confraternity of the Purification of the Virgin and of Saint Zenobius in Florence, which is also in the National Gallery’s collection. It was probably produced shortly afterwards by a member of the artist’s worksh...
Not on display