Melozzo

Now, while Benozzo was working in Rome, there was another painter there called Melozzo, who came from Forlì; and many who know no more than this, having found the name of Melozzo written and having compared the dates, have believed that Melozzo stands for Benozzo; but they are mistaken, for the said painter was one who lived at the same time and was a very zealous student of the problems of art, devoting particular diligence and study to the making of foreshortenings, as may be seen in

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 03 (of 10), Filarete and Simone to Mantegna Giorgio Vasari 1542

It's an image from a fresco painted around the year 1480 by Italian Renaissance artist, Melozzo da Forli, USPS said.

U.S. Postal Service issues holiday stamps Ed O 2010

I suspect that Melozzo had a keen insight into the psychology of prophecy that eluded his fellow artists.

Michael Brenner: Portraying Jesus and Mary: Picturing The Bible's Ethereal And Human Prophets 2010

I suspect that Melozzo had a keen insight into the psychology of prophecy that eluded his fellow artists.

Michael Brenner: Portraying Jesus and Mary 2010

And there is no more evocative introduction to Rome and its food Renaissance than a stunningly realized painting by Melozzo da Forlì that proclaims the triumph of a pope, a city, and of a conniving, unscrupulous, and clever man named Platina who was also the first and greatest cookery writer of the new era.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

Platina, the greatest food writer of the 1400s, is immortalized in paint by Melozzo da Forlì.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

Through the brush of his official painter, Melozzo da Forlì, Pope Sixtus IV was making a bid for a place in the afterlife—but not of the kind prescribed in the Bible.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

The greying man with the harelip that Melozzo paints on his knees was the Vatican librarian, a teacher of the humanities—a humanist, as his type later would come to be called—universally known by the Latin name of Platina, which he had coined for himself.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

Platina probably finished the book during his summer holiday in 1465, which was fifteen years before he posed for Melozzo, ten years before he became Vatican librarian, and six before Francesco della Rovere was elected Sixtus IV.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

Platina also ensured that Melozzo made him look handsome.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008