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	(1) Domenico Ghirlandaio (b Florence, 1448–9; d Florence, Jan 1494). Painter, mosaicist and possibly goldsmith. He was head of one of the most active workshops in late 15th-century Florence. He developed a style of religious narrative that blended the contemporary with the historical in a way that updated the basic tenets of early Renaissance art. Domenico’s documented material situation—prosperous, land-owning—conflicts with Vasari’s description of him as unconcerned with wealth and business, and he emerges as an enterprising, versatile craftsman, the artisan and bourgeois nature of his life making him perfectly suited to satisfying the tastes and aspirations of his patrons. He was called to Rome in 1481 to work in the Sistine Chapel, and throughout the 1480s he received prestigious fresco commissions, culminating in 1485 with that to decorate the Tornabuoni Chapel in S Maria Novella, Florence. Many panel paintings, either autograph or workshop productions, were also produced at this time. He received no further fresco commissions after completing the work in S Maria Novella in 1490, but several projects for mosaic decoration date from this period. Part of the Ghirlandaio family
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	Ghirlandaio, Domenico Antiquaries and antiquarian societies, §1: 16th century and before Florence, §II, 1(ii): Art life and organization, c 1400–c 1530 Ghirlandaio Ghirlandaio: (1) Domenico Ghirlandaio, §I, 1: Training and early works, before c 1470 Ghirlandaio, §I: Life and work Ghirlandaio: (1) Domenico Ghirlandaio, §I, 2(i): c 1470 and after: Frescoes Ghirlandaio: (1) Domenico Ghirlandaio, §I, 2(i)(a): Frescoes, c 1470–c 1480 Ghirlandaio: (1) Domenico Ghirlandaio, §I, 2: c 1470 and after Ghirlandaio: (1) Domenico Ghirlandaio, §I, 2(i)(b): Frescoes, c 1480–90 Ghirlandaio: (1) Domenico Ghirlandaio, §I, 2(ii): c 1470 and after: Panel paintings Ghirlandaio: (1) Domenico Ghirlandaio, §I, 2(iii): c 1470 and after: Illumination and mosaics Ghirlandaio, §II: Working methods and technique Ghirlandaio: (1) Domenico Ghirlandaio, §II, 1: Technique Ghirlandaio: (1) Domenico Ghirlandaio, §II, 2: Workshop organization Rome, §III, 3: Art life and organization, 1420–1502 Studio, §II, 2(i): History and development, c 1450–c 1600 assistants Bartolomeo di Giovanni Ghirlandaio: (2) Davide Ghirlandaio attributions Greville Lippi: (2) Filippino Lippi, §1(i): Training and early work in Florence and Lucca, before c 1485 collaboration Competition, §III, 2: Painting: Commission competition Renaissance, §3: Renaissance, 1450–c 1500 Rome, §V, 14(iii)(b): Vatican Palace: Decoration Antoniazzo Romano Antoniazzo Romano Attavanti, Attavante (Vante di Gabriello di Vante Attavanti) Attavanti, Attavante Botticelli, Sandro Botticelli, Sandro, §I, 2: Life and work, c 1478–90 Francesco di Antonio del Chierico Francesco di Antonio del Chierico Hamilton Xenophon, Master of the Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists, §I: Master of the Hamilton Xenophon Lippi, Filippo (di Tommaso) Lippi: (1) Filippo Lippi, §3: Workshop organization Maiano, Benedetto da Maiano, da: (2) Benedetto da Maiano Mainardi, Bastiano Mainardi, Bastiano Perugino Perugino, §I, 3: Life and work, 1482–c 1495 Rosselli, Cosimo Rosselli: (1) Cosimo Rosselli Vespucci, Guidantonio Vespucci drawings Drawing, §III, 2(iii): Metalpoint Presentation drawing frames Frame, §II, 3(ii): Italian Renaissance: Aedicular frames Frame, §II, 3(v): Italian Renaissance: Tondo frames groups and movements Renaissance, §4(iii)(a): High Renaissance: Painting and graphic art in Italy methods Panel painting, §3(i): Conservation: Support paintings frescoes chapel of St Fina (Collegiate Pieve, San Gimignano) Maiano, da: (2) Benedetto da Maiano, §1: Life and work San Gimignano Ognissanti (Florence) Eyck, van: (2) Jan van Eyck, §5: Critical reception and posthumous reputation Palazzo Vecchio (Florence) Italy, §III, 3(i)(d): Early Renaissance painting, c 1400–c 1500: Subject-matter & patronage Sassetti Chapel (Santa Trinita, Florence) Franciscan Order, §III: Patronage Italy, §XII, 4: Patronage: Renaissance, c 1400–c 1600 Sistine Chapel (Rome, Vatican) Broeck, van den: (3) Hendrik van den Broeck Perugino, §I, 2: Life and work, c 1479–82 S Maria Novella (Florence) Dress, §V, 1(ii): Southern Europe, 15th century Ficino, Marsilio Iconographic programmes, §2: c 1420–c 1550 Landscape painting, §II, 3: 15th century Spalliera S Maria Novella (Florence): Cappella Maggiore Cione: (1) Andrea di Cione, §2: Mature works, 1348–60 Italy, §V, 2: Interior decoration, 1450–1599 S Maria Novella (Florence): Tornabuoni Chapel Landucci, Luca panel altarpieces Sangallo, da: (1) Giuliano da Sangallo, §1(ii): Patronage of Lorenzo de’ Medici, c 1485–92 portraits Italy, §X, 6: Jewellery Poliziano, Angelo religious Dolci, Carlo, §1(i): Life and work, to 1650 Monastery, §I, 2(ii)(b): Christian monastic buildings: Refectory decoration Pucci patrons and collectors Alexander, Francis Alexander, Francis Benson, R(obert) H(enry) Benson, R. H. Coke, Thomas, 1st Earl of Leicester of the 1st creation (1697-1759) Roscoe, William Drury Lowe (Holden), William (1802-1877) Drury Lowe, William Hieronymites Hieronymites, §3: Iconography Kann, Rodolphe Kann, Rodolphe Lorenzo the Magnificent, Lord of Florence (reg 1469-92) Medici, de’: (5) Lorenzo the Magnificent Ryerson, Martin A(ntoine) Ryerson, Martin A. Sassetti, Francesco (di Tommaso) Sassetti, Francesco Tomb, §VI, 2(ii): Western world, before c 1600: Wall tombs Sixtus IV, Pope (reg 1471-84) Italy, §III, 3(ii)(a): Early Renaissance painting, c 1400–c 1500: Florence Rovere, della (i): (1) Pope Sixtus IV Strozzi, Filippo, the elder (1428-91) Strozzi: (2) Filippo Strozzi Thyssen-Bornemisza, Heinrich, Baron von Thyssen-Bornemisza: (1) Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza Tornabuoni, Giovanni Tornabuoni: (1) Giovanni Tornabuoni Tornabuoni, Lorenzo Tornabuoni: (2) Lorenzo Tornabuoni pupils Academy, §1: Origins and early development Albertini, Francesco Bugiardini, Giuliano Ghirlandaio: (4) Ridolfo Ghirlandaio Granacci, Francesco Michelangelo, §I, 1(i): Sculpture: Training and early work, to c 1505 stained glass Gothic, §VIII, 10: Stained glass: Italy workshop Italy, §III, 3(i)(e): Early Renaissance painting, c 1400–c 1500: Status of the artist

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