Benozzo di Lese, better known as Benozzo Gozzoli, was born in Scandicci in 1520. He worked in the mid-15th century and, in his youth, was likely a pupil of Fra Angelico. He worked with Lorenzo Ghiberti on the Gates of Paradise and, in his later years, continued to collaborate extensively with Fra Angelico. A painter of vast output, he worked in Florence, San Gimignano, Montefalco, Rome, and Pisa, leaving behind important fresco cycles, as well as numerous paintings. He also frescoed several important tabernacles in the Val d'Elsa and Val d'Era. He died of the plague in Pistoia on October 4, 1497.