Benozzo Gozzoli (1904) - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1169233228 ISBN 13 : 9781169233225

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Di Uee Di Jtaribxo CALLED BORN 1420: DIED 1498 FLORENTINE SCHOOL JULIA CARTWRICHT THB PAINTERS OP PLORIMCI BENOZZO DI LESE DI SANDRO, called Benozzo GorzoH Benozzo the thick-throated was the son of a small Florentine tradesman literally a waistcoat-maker, named Lese di Sandro. He was born in 1420, and, like many of his contemporaries, learned the trade of both painter and goldsmith in his boyhood. From 1444 to 1447 he worked with Lorenzo Ghiberti on the second of his gates for the Baptistery of Florence, and acquired from him that taste for landscape and architecture, and love of pleasant details and accessories, which marked his future work. In 1447 Fra A ngelico, under whom Benozzo may have studied as a boy, t6ok the young artist with him to Rome, and employed him both in the Vatican Chapel there and at Orvieto, where Benozzo shand can be clearly traced in the pyramidal groups of saints and prophets on the roof of San Brizio s Chapel in the cathedral of the town. When Fra Angelico returned to Florence his assistant offered to complete the work which he had left unfinished at Orvieto, but the Directors of the Cathedral Works declined his proposal, and the decoration of the chapel walls was only carried out fifty years later by Luca Signorclli, The frescos of the Cesarini Chapel in the Church of Santa Xlaria in A raccrii, Rome, which Benozzo next undertook, have all perished, excepting one figure, which is exactly imitated from Fra A ngelico, and represents St. Anthony of Padua with a flame in one hand and a book in the other. In 1450 Benozzo was invited to Montefaico, one of the hill-set ciiics of Umbria, and painted the altar-piece of The A ssumption, now in the Lateran Museum, Rome, as well as several frescos in the Church of San Fortunate, and twelve scenes from the life of St. Francis in the choir of the Church o( San Francesco. The old stories which Gi
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• ISBN 10: 1169233228
• ISBN 13: 9781169233225
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