Domenico Ghirlandaio

Italian Renaissance painter from Florence (1448–1494)

  • Fame61.7
  • Momentum24.2
  • Artists rank#150
Source-basedRising
  • Fame61.7
  • Momentum24.2
  • Artists rank#150
  • Wikipedia10.2K
Lived 1448–1494, aged 46
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    69 languages
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  • Era
    1448–1494
    Aged 46
Summary
Updated 2026-06-08

He painted Renaissance Florence's elite into Biblical scenes — wealthy merchants posing as shepherds, bankers' daughters as saints — and made it feel reverent instead of ridiculous. That gift for weaving the sacred and the social kept commissions rolling in.

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Born Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi in Florence on 2 June 1448, he became Ghirlandaio professionally and rose alongside Verrocchio, the Pollaiolo brothers, and Botticelli as part of the so-called third generation of the Florentine Renaissance. He ran a large, efficient workshop with his brothers Davide and Benedetto, his brother-in-law Bastiano Mainardi, and later his son Ridolfo — a factory of frescoes and altarpieces that trained a parade of apprentices, Michelangelo among them. His signature move was slipping contemporary Florentines and everyday city life into religious narra…

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61.7
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Momentum24.2
Historical23.0
Now attention35.9
Source confidence60.0
Completeness60.0
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#150
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