Artist/Designer: Benozzo Gozzoli
Project Location: Florence, Italy
Style/Period(s):
Renaissance
Primary Material(s):
Plaster, Wood, Paint
Function(s):
Religious Building, Residential Structure
Related Website(s):
Significant Date(s):
15th Century
Additional Information:
Publications/Texts in Print-
Acidini Luchinat, Cristina. The Chapel of the Magi: Benozzo Gozzoli's frescoes in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi Florence. London: Thames and Hudson, 1994.
Benozzo, Franco Cardina, and Lucia Ricciardi. The Chapel of the Magi in Palazzo Medici. Firenze: Mandragora, 2001.
Davisson, Darrell D. Secrets of the Medici palace and its private chapel: six studies in the early Italian Renaissance. North Charleston, SC: Createspac, 2013.
Additional Information-
Building Address
Via Camillo Cavour, 3, 50129 Firenze FI, Italy
Supporting Designers/Staff
Architecture of building by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi (1396–1472)
Ceiling inlay by Pagno di Lapo Portigiano (1408 — 1470)
Copy of Filippo Lippi's Adoration in the Forest by his follower, Pier Francesco Fiorentino ((Florence, 1444/1445 – after 1497
Wall paintings by Benozzo Gozzoli(c. 1421 – 1497)
Significant Dates
Work began in 1449-50
Completed in 1459
Original wall panel by Filippo Lippi sold in 19th century
Associated Projects
Palazzo Medici
Tags
Medici, Renaissance, Italian, Religious, Chapel, Frescoes, Piano Nobile
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