Anbetung der Könige

Benozzo Gozzoli created this work around 1440, now in Florence's Museum of San Marco. The painting reflects the artistic culture of the Early Renaissance, when European painters were developing increasingly naturalistic approaches to representation through the study of perspective and natural observation. Benozzo Gozzoli was the most prolific fresco painter of mid-fifteenth-century Tuscany, trained under Fra Angelico and Ghiberti before establishing himself as the creator of magnificent decorative cycles for churches, civic buildings, and private chapels.

The work shows methodical tempera application with careful underdrawing, layered pigment building, and the attention to proportional relationships and spatial coherence characteristic of Italian Renaissance painting.