ALESSO DI BENOZZO - b. 1473 Firenze, d. 1528 Firenze - WGA

ALESSO DI BENOZZO

(b. 1473 Firenze, d. 1528 Firenze)

Italian painter. He was one of the thee painter sons of Benozzo Gozzoli. The three sons, Francesco, Gerolamo and Alesso, worked together in Pistoia to execute various commissions including a Maestà for the Palazzo Comunale (left unfinished). They assisted their father during the last years of his life in Pistoia.

Annunciation
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Crucifixion
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Crucifixion

This panel represents the Crucifixion, with the Madonna and Sts John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalene, a city and mountainous landscape beyond.

Crucifixion (detail)
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Crucifixion (detail)

This panel represents the Crucifixion, with the Madonna and Sts John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalene, a city and mountainous landscape beyond.

Madonna and Child
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Madonna and Child

The painting depicts the Madonna and Child before a cloth-of-honour held aloft by two angels. The composition can be associated with Benozzo Gozzoli’s Mystic Marriage of St Catherine, which also shows the Christ Child blessing seated on his mother’s lap, before a cloth-of-honour held aloft by two angels.

Pietà
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