The first impression made by the Medici frescoes is their sumptuousness.

When Gozzoli painted--if the story be true--he had only candle light: the window over the altar is new.

But think of candle light being all the illumination of these walls as the painter worked! A new door and window have also been cut in the wall opposite the altar close to the three daughters of Piero, by vandal hands; and "Bruta, bruta!" says the guardian, very rightly.
The landscape behind the procession is hardly less interesting than the procession itself; but it is when we come to the meadows of paradise, with the angels and roses, the cypresses and birds, in the two chancel scenes, that this side of Gozzoli's art is most fascinating.

He has travelled a long way from his master Fra Angelico here: the heaven is of the visible rather than the invisible eye; sense is present as well as the rapturous spirit.

The little Medici who endured the tedium of the services here are to be felicitated with upon such an adorable presentment of glory.