GO'ZZOLI, BENOZZO, a celebrated old Italian painter, born at Florence in 1400, according to Vasari, but in 1406,according to Ciampi. lie was the pupil of Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, whose works, as well as those of Masaccio, he studiously imitated, but he failed completely in attaining 3Iaaaccio'a style of design. Many of Benozzo's frescoes still exist in a tolerable state of preservation, more or loss. Those in the Campo-Santo at Pisa are considered the best. He painted hero twenty four pictures, covering one whole side of the building; he commenced in 1469 and finished them in 1485, and was paid for each picture about ten ducats (sixty-six lire); ho wae to paint by agreetnent three pictures in a year. Supposing Benozzo'e whole time was thus occupied, which it probably would have been if be had painted three pictures every year, wo have a great painter fully employed in the middle of the 15th century, for a salary of leas than thirty ducats, or about 131. sterling per annum, which however would probably be equivalent to upwards of 300l.; a sufficient income, if for the spring and summer months
only. Benozzo was however paid at a higher rate at Orvieto, in 1447, when ho received seven ducats per mouth : but this must have been merely during the spring and summer months, when fresco painters can only work.
Benozzo painted also in Florence, at Rome, at Volterra, and nt Sau Gitnignano, but he settled and died at Pisa, in what year is not exactly known. Vattert was misled by the inscription on his tomb in tho Campo-Santo, which is not the date of Benozzo's death, but the date of the year in which Pisa presented him with the tomb during the progress of the paintings. Ho probably died in 1485.
(Vasari, Vire de Pittori, etc., and the Notes, of Schorn's German Translation; Ciampi, Notizie inedite della Sagreetia Pistojese ; Rosini, Descriziose dells Picture del Campo Santo di Pie°, ; Rumohr, Italienizehe Forechungen.)