GOZZOLI, Benozzo (b. ca. 1420, Firenze, d. 1497, Pistoia) St Augustine Teaching in Rome (scene 6, south wall) 1464-65 Fresco, 220 x 230 cm Apsidal chapel, Sant'Agostino, San Gimignano The scene of St Augustine Teaching in Rome shows the saint as an older man and scholar of rhetoric. Compared to Augustine's start at the School of Tagaste, Benozzo gave the scene an appropriate distance from the observer. The arrangement and scale of the figures underline the perspective indicated by the floor tiles. The parallel lines converge on the figure of the saint. The two listeners sitting to the right
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GOZZOLI, Benozzo (b. ca. 1420, Firenze, d. 1497, Pistoia) St Augustine Teaching in Rome (scene 6, south wall) 1464-65 Fresco, 220 x 230 cm Apsidal chapel, Sant'Agostino, San Gimignano The scene of St Augustine Teaching in Rome shows the saint as an older man and scholar of rhetoric. Compared to Augustine's start at the School of Tagaste, Benozzo gave the scene an appropriate distance from the observer. The arrangement and scale of the figures underline the perspective indicated by the floor tiles. The parallel lines converge on the figure of the saint. The two listeners sitting to the right