Ahl, Diana Cole — Benozzo Gozzoli

Book Good Dust Jacket Included 1st Edition Yale University Press, New Haven and London English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 29.3 x 25.3 cm.; 2 kg.; 340 with colour and black and white illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The dust jacket is worn and slightly loose due to wear, shows edge wear, scuffs and scratches. Scratch on the front cover. The edges are worn and slightly chipped. Bumped edges which are slightly turning inwards. Interior with minor signs of wear.; Benozzo Gozzoli, one of the most esteemed and prolific artists of the Renaissance, is known today as an illustrator of fifteenth-century Florentine life with a taste for ceremonial and pageantry. This beautiful book- the first comprehensive study in English of his work since the beginning of the century is a reassessment of Benozzo that will restore him to his earlier prominence. It focuses on the social and cultural context in which he worked, provides stylistic and technical discussions of each of his major works, and culminates in a catalogue raisonne. Diane Cole Ahl describes Benozzo's sixty-year career, during which he worked for patrons of all kinds, from popes to parish priests and from the Medici to rustic villagers. She proposes new interpretations of his principal commissions, including his famous Journey of the Magi frescoes in the Palazzo Medici and his Old Testament cycle in the vast Camposanto of Pisa, a work that engaged him for over fifteen years. Ahl discusses his working procedure and techniques, incorporating new information brought to light by the recent cleaning of his frescoes, and uses his underdrawings and drawings, some never before published, to analyze his creative process. The book includes 125 works, many unknown until now, with novel proposals on their patronage, technique, and dating. More than three hundred photographs, many specially commissioned, demonstrate the artist's prowess as a portraitist, landscape painter, and creator of sacred narrative. The book, which will stand as the definitive treatment of Benozzo, makes an important contribution to our knowledge of how Renaissance sacred art was created, commissioned, and experienced.