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Copy after the fresco of the mock polyptych <i>Virgin and Child with Saints</i>, Benozzo Gozzoli in San Francesco, San Girolamo chapel, Montefalco

Benozzo Gozzoli

1872

watercolor

From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum

Impressionism Post-Impressionism Realism Late 19th Century Religious

Dominant colour

Copy after the fresco of the mock polyptych <i>Virgin and Child with Saints</i>, Benozzo Gozzoli in San Francesco, San Girolamo chapel, Montefalco is a 1872 watercolor by Benozzo Gozzoli, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Who painted this?: Benozzo Gozzoli
When & what style?: 1872 · Impressionism
Where can I see it?: Victoria and Albert Museum

The story of this work

Overview

A watercolour copy made in 1872 by Eliseo Fattorini after Benozzo Gozzoli’s 1452 fresco of a mock polyptych altarpiece in the San Girolamo chapel, San Francesco, Montefalco, depicts the Virgin and Child at the center surrounded by saints. Commissioned by the Arundel Society, the work was later published as a chromolithograph in 1878 as part of the organization’s efforts to reproduce European Old Master paintings.

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About the artist

Artist

Benozzo Gozzoli

Benozzo Gozzoli (pronounced ; born Benozzo di Lese; c. 1421 – 4 October 1497) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. A pupil of Fra Angelico, Gozzoli is best known for a series of murals in the Magi Chapel of…

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