Works by Benozzo Gozzoli

Benozzo Gozzoli, a pupil of Fra Angelico, told saints' stories in crowded scenes that can hold two moments at once: a dead boy lying on a cloth, and the same boy standing alive behind him.

Schooled in goldsmith's work besides painting, he helped Lorenzo Ghiberti between 1444 and 1447 with the gilded bronze Gates of Paradise for the Florence Baptistery. As assistant to Fra Angelico he painted frescoes in Florence, Rome and Orvieto. From Ghiberti came his precise detail and lively storytelling, from Angelico his bright colours.

He is best known for the Magi Chapel in Florence's Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, frescoed from 1459, where he added his own likeness to the procession and lettered his name around his cap. His largest commission was the series of Old Testament scenes in the Campo Santo at Pisa, begun in 1469.

Religious subjects fill almost all of the works below, which are mostly paintings. In The Feast of Herod, a small panel of 1461–1462, Salome dances at the centre and kneels again further back to hand the Baptist's head to a seated woman in red, while in a room at left an executioner raises his sword over the kneeling saint. In Saint Ursula with Two Angels and Donor and in the four saints with kneeling donors of 1481, each saint's name is lettered in the halo and the donors kneel at a fraction of the saints' height. One sheet, drawn in metalpoint and white on pink-tinted paper, has a woman's head in profile with braided hair on one side and a man's head and a flying angel on the other.

Sources: Wikidata, Wikipedia, Cleveland Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Gemäldegalerie Berlin, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.