The Renaissance was an age of extremes. In addition to the discovery of the individual, it was characterized by an exuberant display of splendor and a worship of power and violence. In Italian city-states such as Rome, Florence and Milan, a new understanding of man and nature was developed, which found expression in timeless masterpieces of painting, architecture and sculpture. The genius not bound to any conventions and rules shaped the imagination. But art was always associated with power and equally boundless violence. Leonardo da Vinci developed a new style of art, crossing the boundaries of the technology of the time, but also devising new weapon systems that were used in brutal wars for supremacy in Italy. Nicolo Machiavelli created the ideal type of Renaissance man with his manual of power "Il Principé". But above the lust for life of the Renaissance always hovers an existential threat: the black death, the plague.
Domenico Ghirlandaio belongs to the Renaissance art system and was one of the most famous painters and fresco artists in Florence during his lifetime. The young Michelangelo entered the workshop of Master Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi, as his full name was called, at the age of thirteen in 1487. He learnt from the successful artist the basics of painting and mosaic design. Ghirlandaio had initially aspired to an apprenticeship as a goldsmith, but eventually joined the art workshop of Alesso Baldovinetti to study painting and mosaics. He then went into business for himself and received more and more commissions from the highest social circles in Florence. The painter of paintings and frescoes proved to be extremely productive and created a large number of works of art for private and church clients. His motifs show sacred and profane themes and a strong emphasis on the social life of the Renaissance. He was considered one of the most precise observers and chroniclers of his time. The artistic highlights were commissions for the decoration of two sacred buildings: The Church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence and the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. As was customary in the Renaissance, the artist immortalized his patrons and patrons in the sacred murals, which were exaggerated by their integration into biblical representations into the divine. Between 1485 and 1490 Ghirlandaio realized his cycle of the Virgin Mary and two other frescoes in private chapels in Florence. On the murals he paid homage to the Medici family, whose members were brought into the circle of the Virgin Mary. In 1481 and 1482 he was commissioned by the Pope to decorate part of the walls of the Sistine Chapel with his Vocation of the Apostles. His representation of the Last Supper in San Marco in Florence served Leonardo Da Vinci as a direct model for his variation.
At the age of 44, at the height of his artistic career, Ghirlandaio fell victim to the curse of his era. He died of the consequences of the plague that struck and depopulated Florence in 1494.
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.jpg "The Last Supper by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "St. Francis receiving the stigmata, scene from a cycle of the Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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_(1449-_-_(MeisterDrucke-999065).jpg "Adoration of the Magi. Painting by Domenico Ghirlandaio (Domenico Bigordi) (1449-1494) 1487 by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "The Last Supper, 1480 by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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_(for_detail_see_120935)_-_(MeisterDrucke-209796).jpg "The Adoration of the Magi, 1488 by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "The Story of Saint John the Baptist: The Visitation by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "The Trial by Fire, St. Francis Before the Sultan of Egypt, Scene from a Cycle of the Life of St. Francis of Assisi, 1486 by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "An Old Man and His Grandson by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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_1483-148_-_(MeisterDrucke-970523).jpg "Adoration of the Shepherds (detail) by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "The Birth of St John the Baptist by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Young Woman by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "An Old Man and a Boy by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Woman carrying Fruit, from the Birth of St. John the Baptist by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Birth of Mary by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Madonna of Mercy and Lamentation and Pieta by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "St. Lucy and a Donor by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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 (for detail see 52661-6 - (MeisterDrucke-118140).jpg "The Confirmation of the Rule of the Order of St. Francis by Pope Honorius III and the Resurrection of a Boy, from the Life of St. Francis Cycle (central wall) by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "The Birth of the Virgin (detail of the women) by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Zenobius, Just, Michael the Archangel, and Raphael the Archangel (ca 1483) by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "(detail) Woman from the Death of St. Fina, 1482 by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "The Angel Appearing to St. Zacharias in the Temple, 1485-90 by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Holy Conversation. The Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ Surrounded by St. Peter, St. Paul, St. Sebastian and Pope St. Clement by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-119492).jpg "Madonna and Child with SS. Justus, Zenobius and the Archangels Michael and Raphael by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Virgin and Child Enthroned with St. Ursula and St. Catherine, 1480-1500 by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "St. Francis receiving the Rule of the Order from Pope Honorius, scene from the cycle of the Life of St. Francis of Assisi, 1486 (detail) by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Madonna and Child by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Florentine Onlookers, from the Cycle of St. Francis, Sassetti Chapel, 1483 (detail) by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Adoration of the Magi, detail, 1487 by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Annunciation to Zachariah (detail) by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Saints Zenobius, Stephen and Lawrence (detail) by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "St. Francis receiving the Rule of the Order from Pope Honorius, scene from a cycle of the Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Madonna and Child Enthroned with the Saints by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "The Expulsion of Joachim from the Temple (detail) by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "The Funeral of Saint Fina by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "St. Francis renouncing his inheritance, from a cycle of the Life of St. Francis by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Young Woman by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Young Man in Red by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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_Ghirlandaio_-_Visitation_Virgin_Mary_visits_Elisabeth_between_Marie_Jacobie_and_Marie_Salome_w_-_(MeisterDrucke-1002194).jpg "Visitation: Virgin Mary Visits Elisabeth by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Marriage of the Virgin, 1486-90 by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Saint Jerome in his Study (detail) by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "A Sibyl, 1483-86 by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "The Last Supper (detail) by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-639767).jpg "Francesco Sassetti and His Son Teodoro, c.1488 by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "The Approval of the Order by Pope Honorius III, Scene from the Life of St. Francis of Assisi (detail) by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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_Ghirlandaio_-_Portrait_of_Man_known_as_the_Gold_-_oil_on_canvas_-_(MeisterDrucke-988988).jpg "Portrait of Man, known as the Gold by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "The Visitation (detail of the city and women) by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Madonna and Child enthroned with SS. Dionysius, Aeropagita, Domenic, Clement and Thomas Aquinas by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Resurrection of Christ by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Christ")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Young Man, 15th Century by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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 and Cicero (106-43 BC) detail from the fresco in the Sala dei Gigli c1470 - (MeisterDrucke-203261).jpg "Decio Mure, Scipio and Cicero (detail) by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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_from_the_Cycle_of_the_Life_-_(MeisterDrucke-567341).jpg "Portraits of Matteo Franco and Luigi Pulci (1432-84) from the Cycle of the Life of St. Francis, c.1483 by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "St. Elizabeth and John the Baptist, from the Birth of St. John the Baptist by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Christ in Glory with Saints (detail) by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1659915).jpg "The Betrothal of the Virgin, Study for a Mural by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "An Old Man and his Grandson by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "An Old Man and His Grandson by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "The Blessing Savior in the Clouds by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "The Trial by Fire and the Death of St. Francis, from Life of St. Francis Cycle by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1642755).jpg "Lucrezia Tornabuoni by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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_Ghirlandaio_-_Head_of_a_woman_wearing_a_coif_(black_chalk_on_white_paper_-_(MeisterDrucke-1092449).jpg "Head of a woman wearing a coif by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Men Looking over a Wall, from the Visitation by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "The Calling of SS. Peter and Andrew by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Receiving the Ring by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Female Member of the Sassetti Family, from the Cycle of St. Francis, Sassetti Chapel, 1483 by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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_St_Romuald_(c952-1027)_St_Attinia_St_-_(MeisterDrucke-179244).jpg "Christ in Glory with St. Benedict, St. Romuald, St. Attinia, St. Grecinia and the donor, abbot Buonvicini, 1492 by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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_Below_left_are_thinkers_and_intel_-_(MeisterDrucke-1022332).jpg "The Announcement Made in Zechariah (detail) by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "St Zenobius, bishop and protector of Florence, between Saints Eugene and Crescenzio and Marzocco, the lion, symbol of city by Domenico Ghirlandaio, detail by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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.jpg "The Miracle of the Boy Brought Back to Life (detail) by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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_Ghirlandaio_-_The_Adoration_of_the_Magi_-_(MeisterDrucke-902724).jpg "The Adoration of the Magi by Domenico Ghirlandaio")
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