Zanobi Strozzi (1412 – 1468),

• Was an Italian painter and manuscript illuminator.

• Strozzi was active in his native Florence and nearby Fiesole.

• Most surviving works are manuscript illuminations, but several panel paintings survive.

• Vasari says Strozzi "painted pictures and panels for a great many private houses in Florence" 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.

• His contribution to eighteen manuscripts can be documented.

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