GOZZOLI, Benozzo
(b. ca. 1420, Firenze, d. 1497, Pistoia)

The Tower of Babel

1469-84
Fresco
Camposanto, Pisa

The picture shows the last compartment of the fresco cycle in the Camposanto, Pisa. It depicts the building of the Tower of Babel. In this large-format scene Gozzoli immortalized a series of prominent contemporaries with portraits, among them Lorenzo the Magnificent, a number of Pisan burghers, and himself.