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Title: A history of painting... / with a preface by Frank Brangwyn
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Macfall, Haldane, 1860-1928
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: Boston : Dana Estes and Co.
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e son of Botticellis master, Fra Filippo Lippi andof his nun wife ; but another goldsmith-painter, Ghirlandaio,first claims a tribute, vv^ho wrought and lived within theyears of Botticelli, and beside him, and with him, and diedbefore him. Ghirlandaio had not the superb genius of hisgreat fellow-artist; his art gave forth but in narrowerfashion the conception of the age ; but he wrought, withdelightful colour-sense and remarkable style, an art thatwas worthy of his times and a significance, of a tempergracious and amiable, and of a pleasing achievement asmusical as his name. no XIII SCHOOL OF DOMENICO GHIRLANDAIO 1449 - 1494 FLORENTINE SCHOOL PORTRAIT OF A GIRL (National Gallery) Note.—This picture is probably by Bastiano Mainardi, the brother-in-law and assistant of Domenico Ghirlandaio. The exquisite colour-scheme is particularly remarkable for the beautyof the painting of the hair, and its freshness of quality. Painted in tempera on wood, i ft. 4 in. x 10^ in. (0-405 m. x ozS). L
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CHAPTER XIII OF AN EXQUISITE MAKER OF GARLANDS GHIRLANDAIO 1449 - 1494 To a silk-weaver of Florence, one Tomasso Bigordi, was OF AN born in 1449 his eldest son Domenico del Ghirlandaio. EXQUISITE The child was therefore some five years younger than ^^^^^^ ^^ PART ANDSBotticelli, Ghirlandaio, the eldest of the three sons of our ^^^^^^^^^ worthy silk-merchant, was apprenticed to a goldsmith, famous in the Florence of these days as the maker of the jewelled coronals called ghirlande^ worn by the ladies of this city—and thereby Bigordis eldest lad came to the name which has made him immortal. Like so many of the jewel-workers, Ghirlandaio was early using the brush also, became the pupil of Alessio Baldovinetti, and was soon so well known that he was painting panel-pictures and frescoes as far away as Rome and Lucca, Pisa and San Gimignano. Ghirlandaios art is perhaps more obviously and easily seen than that of Botticelli; he reveals the more trivial side of the Florentine temperament, w

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