Zanobi Strozzi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Zanobi Strozzi

Italian painter (1412-1468)

Date of Birth: 17-Nov-1412

Place of Birth: Florence, Tuscany

Date of Death: 06-Dec-1468

Profession: illuminator, painter

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Zanobi Strozzi (17 November 1412 – 6 December 1468) 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" (per tutta Fiorenza, per le case de' cittadini) 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.