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

Angels Worshipping (detail)

1459-60
Fresco
Chapel, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence

This section displays Gozzoli's love of detail. In addition to the realistically captured meadow flowers, one can see naturalistically painted birds, including a robin, a pheasant, a duck and a falcon.