Ghirlandaio

Or Ghir·lan·da·jo

[geer-lahn-dah-yaw]

noun

1. Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi, 1449–94, Italian painter.

Ghirlandaio

/ ɡirlanˈdaːjo /

noun

1. Domenico (doˈmeːniko). original name Domenico Bigordi. 1449–94, Italian painter of frescoes

Example Sentences

A mesmerizing portrait of a Florentine lady in a flowing sheer veil, attributed to the early-16th-century Italian painter Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, is accompanied by a decorative panel with the Latin inscription “To each his own mask” and a trompe l’oeil face covering to match.

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“There’s no radar, no navigation systems in place,” said Ghirlandaio Jailani Wafa, a top aviation official at the Kabul airport.

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Other depictions of Saint Jerome by artists including Antonello da Messina and Domenico Ghirlandaio are similarly lavish in picturing the perfect study.

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The museum exhibited several of Verrocchio’s most revered works — including the bronze David from the Bargello in Florence — but it also fleshed out a sense of the Renaissance master’s larger career, his work as both a sculptor and painter, a metalworker, head of a productive studio, and a teacher or close associate of Domenico Ghirlandaio, Pietro Perugino and Sandro Botticelli.

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You could spend your whole career painting saints, carving statesmen and designing palaces, perhaps splitting the work with your colleagues: Sandro Botticelli, Pietro Perugino, Domenico Ghirlandaio and a certain left-handed upstart from the town of Vinci.

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