Be-Go, Benozzo Gozzoli museum, Art museum in Castelfiorentino, Italy.
The Be-Go museum in Castelfiorentino displays detached frescoes and preparatory drawings from two religious shrines painted in the late 15th century. Each work occupies its own exhibition space, where the original colors have been carefully preserved.
Benozzo Gozzoli painted the Tabernacle of the Madonna della Tosse in 1484 and the Tabernacle of the Visitation in 1491–1492 with his sons Francesco and Alesso, both commissioned by Messer Grazia da Castelnuovo, prior of Santa Maria Assunta at Castelnuovo. In 1853 a neo-Gothic facade was built against the first tabernacle and in 1872 the second was enclosed in a small building to shelter the paintings. The frescoes were detached in the 1960s–70s and kept in the Biblioteca Comunale Vallesiana as the Raccolta Comunale d'Arte until the museum, designed by Massimo Mariani, opened on 30 January 2009.
The Tabernacle of the Visitation was commissioned on 12 February 1491 by Messer Grazia da Castelnuovo, prior of Santa Maria Assunta at Castelnuovo, and painted by Benozzo Gozzoli with his sons Francesco and Alesso. A 1637 transcription by Cosimo Bindi, confessor of the nuns of Santa Maria della Marca, kept in the Volterra diocesan archive, records the commission and misreads Alesso's name as Alfonso.
The museum is fully wheelchair accessible and offers specialized support services for visitors with physical or sensory limitations. Planning your visit in advance allows you to arrange any specific assistance you may need.
The museum preserves sinopies, which are preliminary sketches drawn directly onto fresh plaster beneath the finished frescoes. These underlying layers reveal the artist's initial thoughts and corrections made during the painting process.
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