Domenico Bigordi, known as Ghirlandaio (Florence, 1448 - 1494), was an Italian painter.
He worked mainly in his hometown, becoming one of the protagonists of the Renaissance at the time of Lorenzo the Magnificent.
Around 1480 in particular he became the official portraitist of the Florentine high society, thanks to his precise, pleasant and fast style.
Head of a large and efficient workshop, in which the thirteen year old Michelangelo Buonarroti took his first steps in the field of art, is remembered above all for the great frescoed cycles, such as some scenes of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, the Sassetti Chapel and the Tornabuoni Chapel in his hometown.
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