HISTART 62 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Benozzo Gozzoli, Sassetti Chapel, Magi Chapel
4 Nov 2016
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Lecture 30: three kings for florence: the medici as seen by gozzoli, ghirlandaio, and botticelli / The rulers from the medici family as patrons of the arts and sciences would manage to dominate the city of florence by establishing a visual regime through patronage and portraiture (yearly procession of the re magi) The development of early modern financial systems and the development of artistic naturalism appear to depend on one another. In his sermons on art, savonarola walked a fine line between taking advantage of the rhetorical benefits and spiritual dangers of artistic discussion. A fraught interpretation of textual sources can produce a misguided historiography for an artist (see the example of botticelli"s brother and savonarola and the idea of botticelli"s pious late style ) Medici palace (palazzo medici-riccardi, by michelozzo, 1440s- Magi chapel in palazzo medici-riccardi (frescoes by benozzo. Sassetti chapel (frescoes by domenico ghirlandaio, 1483-1486) Cosimo de" medici"s double cell in s. marco (frescoes by fra.
