Procession of the Magi This segment of a huge fresco by Bennozzo Gozzoli covering three walls of a chapel in the Medici Palace in Florence shows members of the Medici family and other contemporary individuals in a procession accompanying the biblical three wise men (magi in Italian) as they brought gifts to the infant Jesus. The painting was ordered in 1459 by Cosimo and Piero de’ Medici, who had just finished building the family palace in the center of the city. The artist places the elderly Cosimo and Piero at the head of the procession, accompanied by their grooms, and includes himself in the group. (Chapel of Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence/De Agostini Picture Library/G. Nimatallah/The Bridgeman Art Library)