The Life and Training of Benozzo Gozzoli Born Benozzo di Lese, the man who would become known as Benozzo Gozzoli entered the world around 1421. His early years were shaped by the movement of his family, who left their village of Sant'Ilario a Colombano to settle in Florence in 1427. This relocation placed him at the very heart of a changing era, where the traditions of the past were beginning to meet new ways of seeing the world. Before he ever took up the brush to command a large fresco, he learned the meticulous discipline of a goldsmith. This early training in metalwork instilled in him a…
A chart of Benozzo Gozzoli's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.