Benozzo Gozzoli's Procession of the Magi - Art Book News.
Benozzo Gozzoli’s “Procession of the Magi” gave the Medici exactly that. It immortalized their legacy in Florence, Italy and the world. It was a tactic to take people’s minds off the state, drawing.The Procession of the Magi is a fresco painting that wraps around the interior of the family chapel of Medici dynasty, the leading patrons of the renaissance in the Florence. The chapel frescos painted by Benozzo Gozzoli include three main panels (respectively for an East, South and West wall), with one for each of the Magi Kings and their retinue travelling by horse and foot bearing gifts for.The procession of the three Magi unfolds with a mixture of exotic, oriental splendor and stately, bourgeois respectability in the fresco cycle painted by Benozzo Gozzoli on the walls of the Medici fam.
The lavishly painted scene captures the biblical journey of the magi, but depicts a number of people contemporary to Renaissance Florence. Upon the white horse at left rides Piero the Gouty, followed by his father Cosimo on a donkey. Piero’s sons Giuliano and Lorenzo are visible in the group to the left.Gozzoli’s work as a whole has a rather empty facility, but in the latter commission, his “ Procession of the Magi ” reveals an artist of great decorative talent, with a pronounced gift for landscape and portraiture.
The Procession of the Magi. The Procession of the Magi, right-hand wall, Florence.
