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DOMENICO GHIRLANDAIO
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Detail from Adoration of the Shepherds, 1485 |
- Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi (1448-1494),
professionally known as Domenico Ghirlandaio (also spelt as
Ghirlandajo), was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Florence.
- Ghirlandaio was part of the so-called 'third generation' of the Florentine Renaissance, along with Verrocchio, the Pollaiolo brothers and Sandro Botticelli.
- Ghirlandaio led a large and efficient workshop that
included his brothers Davide Ghirlandaio and Benedetto
Ghirlandaio, his brother-in-law Bastiano Mainardi from San
Gimignano, and later his son Ridolfo Ghirlandaio.
- Many apprentices passed through Ghirlandaio's workshop, including Michelangelo.
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His particular talent lay in his ability to posit depictions of contemporary life and portraits of contemporary people within the context of religious narratives, bringing him great popularity and many large commissions.
(Wikipedia)
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