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Title: A history of painting
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Macfall, Haldane, 1860-1928
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: London and Edinburgh : T.C. and E.C. Jack
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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the son of Botticellis master, Fra Filippo Lippi andof his nun wife ; but another goldsmith-painter, Ghirlandaio,first claims a tribute, who 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. 110 XIII SCHOOL OF DOMENICO GHIRLANDAIO1449 - 1494 FLORENTINE SCHOOL PORTRAIT OF A GIRL (National Gallery) Nolc.—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. 1 ft. 4 in. x io£ in. (0*405 m. x 0*26).
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GARLANDS CHAPTER XIII OF AN EXQUISITE MAKER OF GARLANDS GHIRLANDAIO 1449 - 1494To a silk-weaver of Florence, one Tomasso Bigordi, was OF ANborn in 1449 his eldest son Domenico del Ghirlandaio. EXQUISITEThe child was therefore some five years younger than MAKfc,K Ui<Botticelli. Ghirlandaio, the eldest of the three sons of ourworthy silk-merchant, was apprenticed to a goldsmith,famous in the Florence of these days as the maker of thejewelled coronals called ghirlande, worn by the ladies of thiscity—and thereby Bigordis eldest lad came to the namewhich has made him immortal. Like so many of thejewel-workers, Ghirlandaio was early using the brushalso, became the pupil of Alessio Baldovinetti, and wassoon so well known that he was painting panel-pictures andfrescoes as far away as Rome and Lucca, Pisa and SanGimignano. Ghirlandaios art is perhaps more obviouslyand easily seen than that of Botticelli; he reveals the moretrivial side of the Florentine temperament, with its love ofcolour

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