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  • Davide Ghirlandaio, also known as David Ghirlandaio and as Davide Bigordi, was an Italian painter and mosaicist, active in his native Florence.
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    Domenico Ghirlandaio

    Italian Renaissance painter from Florence (1448–1494)

    Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi (2 June 1448 – 11 January 1494), professionally known as Domenico Ghirlandaio (also spelt as Ghirlandajo),[a] 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.[4] Many apprentices passed through Ghirlandaio's workshop, including Michelangelo.[4]

    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

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    Criticism and interpretation, Italian Painting, Renaissance Painting, Art, Christian art and symbolism, Catalogs, Catalogues raisonnés, Conservation and restoration, Italian Mural painting and decoration, Biography, Cappella Sassetti (Santa Trinità (Church : Florence, Italy)), Gothic Painting, Painters, Painting, Painting, Renaissance, Pictorial works, 1449-1494, Architecture, Architecture, domestic, germany, Artists, italy

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    Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-1494,), Francesco Sassetti (1421-1490), Francis of Assisi, Saint (1182-1226), Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506), Andrea del Verrocchio (1435?-1488), Angelico fra (ca. 1

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    Selvaggia Sassetti (born 1470)

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    Title:Selvaggia Sassetti (born 1470)

    Artist:Davide Ghirlandaio (David Bigordi) (Italian, Florence 1452–1525 Florence)

    Date:ca. 1487–88

    Medium:Tempera on wood

    Dimensions:22 1/2 x 17 3/8 in. (57.2 x 44.1 cm)

    Classification:Paintings

    Credit Line:The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931

    Object Number:32.100.71

    Two portraits of this young woman exist: a life-size full-length in Domenico Ghirlandaio's mural of the Raising of the Roman Notary's Son in the Sassetti chapel of the church of Santa Trinita, Florence, and this bust-length that shows her standing before a plain background which was originally blue, the azurite pigment having discolored. The mural contains over a dozen portraits of members of the banker Francesco Sassetti's household, including three daughters who stand and kneel in the front row of the mural, which was complet