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

Procession of the Youngest King (detail)

1459-60
Fresco
Chapel, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence

Most of the figures were painted from live models and given the likeness of Benozzo Gozzoli's contemporaries. The painter tried to represent as many likeness as possible, often without concern for the actual space taken up by the body; only a few figures enjoy sufficient space.

On the artist's self-portrait his name is prominently spelled out on his cap. In front, the portrait of the ten-year-old Lorenzo de' Medici is depicted.