TRAVEL LIKE BENOZZO GOZZOLI

An engaging narration, between vibrant colors and accurate details

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His skill in the use of light and colors made his works unique and still appreciated today by art lovers. The life and artistic growth of Benozzo Gozzoli, an Italian painter of the fifteenth century, is closely connected to some of the places where it is possible to admire his works. In Montefalco there are the Parish Church of San Fortunato and the Church of San Francesco, where some of his most significant works are present. Visiting Orvieto you will discover that in the Chapel of San Brizio of the Orvieto Cathedral Benozzo Gozzoli decorated the vaults with frescoes. You will be able to see with your own eyes that the only two completed vaults of the vault show part of the heads painted in the ribs and some faces of the Prophets. In Viterbo, however, the artist created a cycle with the stories of Santa Rosa in the church of the same name, although unfortunately this cycle was destroyed in 1653. Other places connected to his works are the Vatican in Rome, the Palazzo dei Medici in Florence, as well as the Camposanto of Pisa.

The works of Benozzo Gozzoli, influenced by the great masters of his time, such as Fra Angelico and Andrea del Castagno, are unique in their narrative and bright colors, architectural details and representations of faces. Gozzoli was known for his ability to tell stories through his frescoes. His works often feature detailed and lively scenes, with well-defined characters and evocative settings; as in the cycle of frescoes in the Chapel of the Magi in Florence, where he painted a caravan of Magi traveling towards Bethlehem, with a variety of figures, animals and intricate landscapes. Benozzo Gozzoli used lively and bright colours, creating an effect of depth and three-dimensionality. Its blue, red and golden colors are particularly notable. This skill in using color made his works very attractive. This artist was also a skilled architectural painter. In his frescoes, in fact, he often painted complex architectural backgrounds that added realism and depth to his works. In his works the faces of the characters are expressive and realistic. Benozzo, in fact, managed to capture the emotions and personalities of the subjects, making the scenes even more engaging.

What do we know about his life and artistic training? Benozzo Gozzoli was born around 1420 in the village of San Colombano, near the Badia a Settimo (Scandicci). The history of Scandicci is closely linked to the Settimo plain, where you will find the parish church of San Giuliano which houses a terracotta work from Donatello’s workshop. Benozzo Gozzoli was originally from the town of San Colombano, which takes its name from the church of the same name. Seven years later he moved with his family to Florence, where he apparently received a decade of artistic training from the painter Beato Angelico, with whom he collaborated in the decoration of the convent and church of San Marco in Florence. In 1447, together with Angelico, he was called to Rome for the decoration of a chapel in the Apostolic Palace. Two years later, he ended the collaboration with Beato Angelico with the decoration of the vaults of the Cappella Nuova or San Brizio, in the cathedral of Orvieto, where he executed part of the heads painted in the ribs and some of the faces of the Prophets. After the expulsion from Florence of his protectors, the doctors, Benozzo Gozzoli reached his children in Pistoia, who sold to the bishop of the city two paintings in which there is no longer a trace of his vibrant colors and accurate details. The old man who was a child from San Colombano, in 1497 he died of plague in Pistoia.