Domenico Ghirlandaio

This article is about the Italian painter. For other uses, see Domenico.

Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449 – 11 January 1494) was an Italian Renaissance painter.

Running a large workshop in Florence, Ghirlandaio briefly took the position of Michelangelo's teacher. In 1483, Pope Sixtus IV commissioned Domenico, Pietro Perugino, Sandro Botticelli, and several other painters to create a series of frescos on the walls of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo praised the frescoes, hoping to see them one day. Two years later, Ghirlandaio was commissioned to paint frescoes of the life of Saint Francis in the Sassetti Chapel at the Basilica di Santa Trinita.

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed II (mentioned in Database entry only)