Saint Augustine

By N.S. Gill, About.com Guide

This is a section of one of the 17 scenes from the life of Saint Augustine that Benozzo Gozzoli (c. 1421 – 1497) was commissioned to paint as a fresco in the apsidal chapel of the church of Sant'Agostino, in San Gimignano. This painting is in the first or lowest of the three rows of paintings.

As the Web Gallery of Art explains, Benozzo Gozzoli left Florence for the higher altitude of San Gimignano to try to escape the Plague.

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• Vision of Saint Augustine
• Fra Filippo Lippi's Vision of Saint Augustine. 1450s-1460s.
• Botticelli Coronation of the Virgin
• Saint Augustine and Saint Monica
• Botticelli Augustine
• Botticelli Augustine
• Miracle of Saint Augustine
• Saint Augustine Teaching at Rome

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