GOZZOLI, Benozzo
(b. ca. 1420, Firenze, d. 1497, Pistoia)

The Vigil of the Shepherds (right wall of the apse)

1459-60
Fresco
Chapel, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence

On the opposite narrow strip, an ass is seen in a frontal view standing in a field in front of the two shepherds. It may be a reference to the Star of Bethlehem, which originally was probably depicted on the opposite entrance wall and was lost during renovations.