An Old Man with a Strawberry Nose (1480). Tempera on wood, 62 x 46 cm Louvre, Paris

Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449 - January 11, 1494) was a Florentine Renaissance painter, a contemporary of Botticelli and Filippino Lippi. His many apprentices included Michelangelo. Download high resolution version (803x1080, 110 KB)An Old Man and His Grandson by Domenico Ghirlandaio (c. ... Download high resolution version (803x1080, 110 KB)An Old Man and His Grandson by Domenico Ghirlandaio (c. ... The Louvre Museum (Musée du Louvre) in Paris, France, is one of the largest and most famous museums in the world. ... Events January 6 - Constantine XI is crowned Byzantine Emperor. ... January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1494 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Founded 59 BC as Florentia Region Tuscany Mayor Leonardo Domenici (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  102 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 356,000 almost 500,000 3,453/km² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Latitude Longitude 43°47 N 11°15 E www. ... Raphael was famous for depicting illustrious figures of the Classical past with the features of his Renaissance contemporaries. ... Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli (Florence March 1, 1445 - May 17, 1510) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento). ... Filippino Lippi, self-portrait Biography Filippino Lippi (ca. ... Chalk portrait of Michelangelo by Daniele da Volterra Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet. ...

His full name is given as Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi; it appears therefore that his father's surname was Curradi, and his grandfather's Bigordi. Domenico, the eldest of eight children, was at first apprenticed to a jeweller or a goldsmith, most likely his own father. "Il Ghirlandajo (garland-maker) nickname, came to Domenico from his father ,a goldsmith was renowned in creating the metallic garlands worn by Florentine damsels. In his father's shop ,Domenico was continually making portraits of the passers-by, and he was apprenticed to Alessio Baldovinetti to study painting and mosaic. A goldsmith creating a new ring A goldsmith is a metalworker who specializes in working with precious metals, usually to make jewelry. ... Garland is the name of two places in the United States: the city of Garland, Texas the town of Garland, North Carolina Garland is the surname of some notable individuals: John of Garland, medieval English grammarian, fl. ... Mosaic is the art of decoration with small pieces of colored glass, stone or other material. ...

First works in Florence and Rome

In 1480 Ghirlandajo painted Saint Jerome and other frescoes in the church of Ognissanti, Florence, and a life-sized Last Supper in its refectory. From 1481 to 1485 he was employed upon frescoes in the Sala dell Orologio of the Palazzo Vecchio; he painted the Apotheosis of St. Zenobius, a work beyond the size of life, with much architectural framework, figures of Roman heroes and other detail, striking in perspective and structural propriety. Saint-Jérôme, Quebec is a town in Quebec, near Mirabel, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of Montreal along Autoroute des Laurentides. ... Founded 59 BC as Florentia Region Tuscany Mayor Leonardo Domenici (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  102 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 356,000 almost 500,000 3,453/km² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Latitude Longitude 43°47 N 11°15 E www. ... Fresco by Dionisius representing Saint Nicholas. ... Palazzo Vecchio The Palazzo Vecchio is the town hall of Florence, Italy. ...

He was summoned in 1483 to Rome by Pope Sixtus IV to paint a Sistine Chapel wall fresco: Christ calling Peter and Andrew to their Apostleship. Other works in Rome are now perished. Before 1485 he had likewise produced his frescoes in the chapel of S. Fina, in the Tuscan town of S. Gimignano which after c.1350 was under the rule of nearby Siena. His future brother-in-law, Sebastiano Mainardi, assisted him in these productions in Rome and in S. Gimignano. Sixtus IV, born Francesco della Rovere (July 21, 1414 - August 12, 1484) was Pope from 1471 to 1484, essentially a Renaissance prince, the Sixtus of the Sistine Chapel where the team of artists he brought together introduced the Early Renaissance to Rome with a masterpiece. ... The Sistine Chapel (Italian: Cappella Sistina) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Roman Catholic Pope in the Vatican City, Rome. ... This article is about the capital of Italy. ...

Later Works in Tuscany

Back in Florence in 1485, he painted fresco cycles in the Sassetti chapel of S. Trinita,for the donor and banker Francesco Sassetti ,who became hgead of the Medici bank in Genoa ,only to be replaced by Giovanni Tornabuoni-a future commissioner of Ghirlandaio.In the chapel ,Domenico painted six scenes from the life of St Francis, including St Francis obtaining from Pope Honorius the approval of the Rules of his Order; Death and Obsequies, and Resuscitation, by the interposition of the beatified saint, of a child of the Spini family, who had been killed by falling out of a window. In the first work is a portrait of Lorenzo de Medici; and in the third the painter's own likeness, which he introduced also into one of the pictures in S. Maria Novella, and in the Adoration of the Magi in the hospital of the Innocenti. The altarpiece of the Sassetti chapel,Adoration of the Shepherds, is now in the Florentine Academy. Immediately after this commission, Ghirlandajo was asked to renew the frescoes in the choir of S. Maria Novella, which formed the chapel of the Ricci family, but the Tornabuoni and Tornaquinci families, then much more opulent than the Ricci, undertook the cost of the restoration, under conditions, as to preserving the arms of the Ricci, which gave rise in the end to some amusing incidents of litigation. The frescoes, by Domenico and many assistants, are in four courses along the three walls, the leading subjects being the lives of the Madonna and of the Baptist. These works are particularly interesting in containing many historical portraits, a method of treatment in which Ghirlandajo was preeminently skilled. Numerous saints have been named Francis. ... Pope Honorius could refer to: Pope Honorius I Pope Honorius II Pope Honorius III Pope Honorius IV This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... The exact same full name was also carried by his grandson Lorenzo (1492 - 1519), Duke of Urbino, with whom he is sometimes confused. ... The Annunciation Triptych is an altarpiece, ca. ... A lawsuit is a civil action brought before a court in order to recover a right, obtain damages for an injury, obtain an injunction to prevent an injury, or obtain a declaratory judgment to prevent future legal disputes. ...

Ghirlandajo's series on the life of Mary, executed with utmost attention to realistic detail, seem to represent domestic scenes from contemporary life of the Florentine nobility, rather than historical events of cosmic significance.

There are no less than twenty-one portraits of the Tornabuoni and Tornaquinci families; in the subject of the Angel appearing to Zacharias, those of Politian, Marsilio Ficino and others; in the Salutation of Anna and Elizabeth, the beautiful Ginevra de Benci; in the Expulsion of Joachim from the Temple, Mainardi and Baldovinetti (or the latter figure may perhaps be Ghirlandajo's father). The Ricci chapel was reopened and completed in 1490; the altarpiece was probably executed with the assistance of Domenico's brothers, David and Benedetto; the painted window was from Domenico's own design. Other distinguished works from his hand are an altarpiece in tempera of the Virgin Adored by Sts Zenobius, Justus and others, painted for the church of St Justus, but now in the Uffizi gallery, a remarkable masterpiece; Christ in Glory with Romuald and other Saints, in the Badia of Volterra; the Adoration of the Magi, in the church of the Innocenti (already mentioned), perhaps his finest panel-picture (1488); and the Visitation (Louvre) which bears the latest ascertained date (1491) of all his works. Ghirlandajo did not often attempt the nude; one of his pictures of this character, Vulcan and his Assistants forging Thunderbolts, was painted for Lo Spedaletto, but (like several others specified by Vasari), no longer exists. The mosaics which he produced date before 1491; one, of especial celebrity, is the Annunciation, on a portal of the cathedral of Florence. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1284x750, 190 KB) Domenico Ghirlandajo. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1284x750, 190 KB) Domenico Ghirlandajo. ... A 1367 tempera on wood by Niccolò Semitecolo. ... The Uffizi Gallery (Italian: Galleria degli Uffizi) is a palace or palazzo in Florence, holding one of the oldest and most famous art museums in the world. ... I.M. Peis Louvre Pyramid: one of the entrances to the galleries lies below the glass pyramid. ... Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, Tuscany July 3, 1511 - Florence, June 27, 1574) was an Italian painter and architect, mainly known for his famous biographies of Italian artists. ...

Critical Assessment and Legacy

His scheme of composition is grand and decorous; his chiaroscuro excellent, and especially his perspectives, which he would design on a very elaborate scale by the eye alone; his color is more open to criticism, but this remark applies much less to the frescoes than the tempera-pictures, which are sometimes too broadly and crudely bright. He worked in these two methods alone---never in oils; and his frescoes are what the Italians term buon fresco, without any finishing in tempera. Sacred Love versus Profane Love by Giovanni Baglione. ...

"Apotheosis of St. Zenobius" in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

A certain hardness of outline, not unlike the character of bronze sculpture, may attest his early training in metal work. He first introduced into Florentine art that mixture of the sacred and the profane which had already been practiced in Siena. Vasari says that Ghirlandajo was the first to abandon in great part the use of gilding in his pictures, representing by genuine painting any objects supposed to be gilded; yet this does not hold good without some considerable exceptions the highlights of the landscape, for instance, in the Adoration of the Shepherds, now in the Florence Academy, being put in gold. Many drawings and sketches by this painter, now in the Uffizi gallery, are remarkable for vigour of outline. One of the great glories of Ghirlandajo is that he gave some early art education to Michelangelo, who cannot, however, have remained with him long. Image File history File linksMetadata Firenze. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Firenze. ... Palazzo Vecchio The Palazzo Vecchio is the town hall of Florence, Italy. ... Siena is a city in Tuscany, Italy. ... Chalk portrait of Michelangelo by Daniele da Volterra Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet. ...

This renowned artist died of pestilential fever on the 11th of January 1494, and was buried in S. Maria Novella. He had been twice married, and left six children, three of them being sons. He had a long and honorable line of descendants, which came to a close in the 17th century, when the last members of the family entered monasteries. It is probable that Domenico died poor; he appears to have been gentle, honorable and conscientious, as well as energetically diligent. 1494 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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References

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.