Benozzo Gozzoli (1420-1497) was highly regarded as a painter of frescoes, and created vivid, detailed pictorial worlds. His rich talent for narrative was given a documentary character by the inclusion of portraits of numerous identifiable contemporaries such as his powerful clients, the important Medici merchant family. Gozzoli's main work was the paintings in the Medici-Riccardi Palace, and the frescoes that decorate all the walls from the pinnacle of his artistic development. Benozzo Gozzoli's extremely productive creative period coincided with the main phase of the Tuscan Early Renaissance, and his works had a lasting influence on it.