Saint Michel entre saint François, saint Jérôme, sainte Catherine et sainte Brigitte de Suède

Alesso di Benozzo was the son and workshop collaborator of Benozzo Gozzoli, one of the most prolific fresco painters of fifteenth-century Florence. This Saint Michael Enthroned with Saints Francis, Jerome, Catherine, and Bridget of Sweden (c. 1465–1475) reflects the late Quattrocento practice of assembling diverse saints whose cults served specific devotional communities. Bridget of Sweden was canonized in 1391 and became patron of a Swedish religious order with a significant presence in Italy; her inclusion alongside traditional Italian saints signals a cosmopolitan confraternal commission. Alesso worked in close collaboration with his father and absorbing the Gozzoli workshop's bright color and decorative confidence.

The composition follows the hierarchical arrangement typical of the Gozzoli workshop: Michael enthroned above, flanked symmetrically by pairs of saints below. Individual saints are distinguished through attribute objects — Jerome's lion, Francis's stigmata wounds, Catherine's wheel — rendered with clear decorative precision. The palette is characteristically bright: vermilion, azure, grass green, and warm gold, applied with the confident direct technique of a busy workshop accustomed to large-scale production.