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" My friend singularissimo ... "so he turned to Cosimo de 'Medici, the painter of Lese Benozzo, better known as Benozzo Gozzoli, according to the name that was given by Vasari in his book" Lives ".
Still, Vasari says that he was a disciple Angelico, Fra 'Giovanni (Beato Angelico).
He also worked in Florence and, although re-evaluated only years later, he was one of the architects of the development of art and Florentine history.
Being friendly with the Medici family, was commissioned by Cosimo in 1459 that began the decoration of the chapel of the palace in Via Larga, now Palazzo Medici Riccardi, the Ride (or procession or Travel) of the Magi.
The work aims to be the celebration of the Medici family, as the religious subject is used as a pretext to represent the procession arrived in Florence from Ferrara at the Council (1438-1439): the Medici lavished so there was a reunification between the Latin and the Byzantine church, as the Emperor of Byzantium to the West for help in anticipation of the siege by the turkish Sultan Mohammed the Conqueror to the city of Constantinople.
In fact the reunification did not happen, the fact remains that the fresco, however, gave great prestige to House of Medici: particularly the east wall of the chapel see represented among the participants in the parade of Gaspar, much of the Medici family.

Cosimo de 'Medici the Elder said

Piero de' Medici, called the Gouty father of Lorenzo the Magnificent.

Lorenzo de 'Medici the Magnificent




Giuliano de' Medici, who died killed in the Pazzi conspiracy



Carlo de 'Medici (the illegitimate son Cosimo became bishop Prato)

Also in the procession are depicted Gaspar well as many famous Florentines, including

Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta

Galeazzo Maria Sforza

The Wizard
Baldassarre is the Byzantine emperor, John VIII Palaeologus
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Finally, the Magician is the portrait Melchiorre Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg.

Some critics believe that the Magus Gaspar both Lorenzo de 'Medici twelve, placed between the two emperors of East and West, signifying the hope of the future destiny of the imperial family.

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