Benozzo Gozzoli had remained at Montefalco (with…

Benozzo Gozzoli had remained at Montefalco (with an interval at Viterbo) probably till 1456, employing Pier Antonio Mezzastris as assistant; and from there had gone to Perugia, where he painted in a church a Virgin and Saints that is now in the local academy.

Returning soon afterwards to his native Florence, the epicenter of Quattrocento art, Gozzoli has painted between 1459 and 1461 what may be his most important work: his frescoes of the Magi in the Magi Chapel of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, the Journey of the Magi to Bethlehem, and in the tribune, a composition of Angels in Paradise.

Gozzoli has incorporated portraits of the Medici family into his fresco The Journey of the Magi, and included his self-portrait in the procession, with his name written around the rim of his cap.

His Virgin and Child with Saints of 1461, in the National Gallery, London, belongs also to the period of this stay in Florence.