Zanobi Strozzi. Zanobi Strozzi was an Italian painter and manuscript illuminator, active in his native Florence and nearby Fiesole.
He was evidently closely associated with Fra Angelico, if not perhaps a formal pupil as Vasari says. He is almost certainly identifiable with the Buckingham Palace Master.
Most surviving works are manuscript illuminations, but several panel paintings survive, including six altarpieces and six panels with the Virgin and Child, as well as some designs for metalwork. Vasari says Strozzi painted pictures and panels for a great many private houses in Florence and mentions some in churches, as well as a double portrait.
He may have been something of a pioneer in producing small pictures for homes that departed from the usual subject of the Virgin and Child. He was one of the most important illuminators in Florence in his day, and his contribution to eighteen manuscripts can be documented, normally as one of a group of artists, strongly contrasting with his undocumented paintings, which are mostly attributed to him on the basis of style alone.
He was born in Florence, a member of the extended Strozzi family, who during his lifetime lost their battle for primacy within Florence with the Medici family, but were still noble and wealthy. He was orphaned at the age of 15, and then lived with the artist Battista di Biagio Sanguigni, described as his tutor but probably also his
He was evidently closely associated with Fra Angelico, if not perhaps a formal pupil as Vasari says. He is almost certainly identifiable with the Buckingham Palace Master.
Most surviving works are manuscript illuminations, but several panel paintings survive, including six altarpieces and six panels with the Virgin and Child, as well as some designs for metalwork. Vasari says Strozzi painted pictures and panels for a great many private houses in Florence and mentions some in churches, as well as a double portrait.
He may have been something of a pioneer in producing small pictures for homes that departed from the usual subject of the Virgin and Child. He was one of the most important illuminators in Florence in his day, and his contribution to eighteen manuscripts can be documented, normally as one of a group of artists, strongly contrasting with his undocumented paintings, which are mostly attributed to him on the basis of style alone.
He was born in Florence, a member of the extended Strozzi family, who during his lifetime lost their battle for primacy within Florence with the Medici family, but were still noble and wealthy. He was orphaned at the age of 15, and then lived with the artist Battista di Biagio Sanguigni, described as his tutor but probably also his
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