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BENOZZO GOZZOLI.
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grapes on her head, the other holding up her basket
for more—which are perfect models of pastoral
grace and simplicity. In the Building of the
Tower of Babel a crowd of spectators have assem-
bled to witness the work; among them are intro-
duced the figures of Cosmo de’ Medici, the Father
of his country, and his two grandsons Lorenzo and
Giuliano, with Poliziano and other personages, all
in the costume of that time. In the Marriage
Feast of Jacob and Rachel he has introduced the
two graceful dancing figures which are given in the
woodcut. In the Recognition of Joseph he has
painted a profusion of rich architectural decoration
—palaces, colonnades, balconies, and porticoes in
the style of the time; and in the distance we have,
instead of the Egyptian Pyramids, a view of the
Cathedral of Pisa!
Soon after the completion of the last compartment,
the Queen of Sheba’s visit to Solomon (of which
unhappily scarce a fragment remains), Benozzo Goz-
zoli died at Pisa, in his seventy-eighth year. The
grateful and admiring Pisans, among whom he had
resided for sixteen years in great honour and es-
teem, had presented him in the course of his work
with a vault or sepulchre just beneath the com-
partment which contains the history of Joseph, and
in this spot he lies buried, with an inscription
purporting that his best monument consists in the
works around. Benozzo left an only daughter, who
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grapes on her head, the other holding up her basket
for more—which are perfect models of pastoral
grace and simplicity. In the Building of the
Tower of Babel a crowd of spectators have assem-
bled to witness the work; among them are intro-
duced the figures of Cosmo de’ Medici, the Father
of his country, and his two grandsons Lorenzo and
Giuliano, with Poliziano and other personages, all
in the costume of that time. In the Marriage
Feast of Jacob and Rachel he has introduced the
two graceful dancing figures which are given in the
woodcut. In the Recognition of Joseph he has
painted a profusion of rich architectural decoration
—palaces, colonnades, balconies, and porticoes in
the style of the time; and in the distance we have,
instead of the Egyptian Pyramids, a view of the
Cathedral of Pisa!
Soon after the completion of the last compartment,
the Queen of Sheba’s visit to Solomon (of which
unhappily scarce a fragment remains), Benozzo Goz-
zoli died at Pisa, in his seventy-eighth year. The
grateful and admiring Pisans, among whom he had
resided for sixteen years in great honour and es-
teem, had presented him in the course of his work
with a vault or sepulchre just beneath the com-
partment which contains the history of Joseph, and
in this spot he lies buried, with an inscription
purporting that his best monument consists in the
works around. Benozzo left an only daughter, who