Domenico Ghirlandaio

sPreservation of the Sistine Chapel One of the most important monuments to human artistic inginuitiy and history is widely regarded to be the Sistine Chapel. Consecrated in 1483, a group of renaiscance painters consisting of Sandro Botticelli, Pietro Perguino, Pinturicchio, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Cosimo Roselli, created the numerous frescos that adorn its walls and ceiling. The paintings have held up magnificiently over time, however, the era in which they were created were no the best for supporting their preservation, and this very concept was not even considred at the time. The limits of technology prevented and real preservation efforts from happening, as there was no electricity or climate control. Humidity, heat, and cold brought on by Nature expanded and contracted the paints, and over the centuries, cracked and split the paints used by the artists. There were also leaks, as water had penetraited from the floors above the chapel’s ceiling and…

Artist and writer Giorgio Vasari once wrote, “Domenico di Tommaso del Ghirlandaio, who can be called one of the principal artists and one of the most excellent masters of his age because of the merits, grandeur, and multitude of his works, was created by nature herself to become a painter” (Wiesner-Hanks 117-120). Vasari’s quotation provides powerful insight into the life of one of the most beloved painters from Florence in the fifteenth century. In Old Man and Young, Domenico Ghirlandaio…

The latter is a critical response of The University of Colorado Boulder Department of Theatre and Dance’s rendition of Carlo Goldoni’s mid-18th century comedy; Servant of Two Masters. Directed by Tamara Meneghini, and featured in the ever-personal Loft Theatre, this hilarious tale of love and mishappenings had me encaptured for entirety of its two and a half hour run time. Needless to say, I found this showing to be of great standing, and was successful on nearly every single level in making…

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, Michaelangelo for short, was born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese, the republic of Florence, Italy. His father, Lodovico Buonarroti, served as a Florentine government agent for a short amount of time. The family moved back to Florence before Michelangelo was even one month old. Michelangelo's mother died when he was six. When he was 13, he was an apprentice for Domenico Ghirlandaio who was the most fashionable painter in Florence at the time. Domenico…

The artistic masters, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Bertoldo di Giovanni predisposed the youthful Michelangelo to drawing. Michelangelo’s education and early training in the fields of art, evolved in the city of Florence. Initially, young Michelangelo was an apprentice to the leading Fresco painter of his era, Domenico Ghirlandaio. Although, Michelangelo’s apprenticeship was short-lived, he developed an extensive understanding on the art of Fresco painting. Therefore, Michelangelo…

as well as Pieta and his paintings in the Sistine Chapel (Bio). Michelangelo was born in March 6th, 1475 in Caprese, Italy and died 88 years later in 1564 in Rome. At a young age, Michelangelo was sent to live with a family of stonecutters due to his mother’s illness. His mother, Francesca Neri, died when he was six years of age. His father, Lodovico, assumed Michelangelo would go into a career of business so he was sent to Francesco Galeota. Within Michelangelo’s studies in Francesco…

While with the Medici family, Michelangelo attended school but never really payed any attention. He would only watch the artists outside his school paint and sculpt. Then when he was 13 Michelangelo got to apprentice Domenico Ghirlandaio, the cities best artist, even though his father didn’t want him to. Michelangelo overcame his father’s objections and went to apprentice Domenico for three years. Only one year later though, Michelangelo left. Instead of apprenticing Domenico Ghirlandaio, he…

is deeply religious, though his in-depth studies helped him prepare a masterpiece of work that so tells the second coming as he saw it. Domenico Ghirlandaio, another early Renaissance painter, son of a goldsmith, and more than likely apprenticed under his father before becoming a great frescoes painter. Much of the work during the early Renaissance was commissioned by the Catholic Church, and Medici family to create biblical frescoes in chapels built by the church or family. Domenico’s was…

what is being created by modern day artists. Michelangelo Buonarroti is a man who utilized his ability to create wondrous pieces of artwork as a way to express himself to the world. On the sixth day of March in 1475, Michelangelo Buonarroti was born onto the earth in Caprese, Italy. Even during the early youthhood of Michelangelo Buonarroti, art has been a subject that has revolved around him. The Buonarroti family financial business was the career that Michelangelo Buonarroti’s father…

moved to Florence, where Michelangelo attended grammar school. Even though young Michelangelo showed great artistic promise, he was not interested in schooling and would “constantly run off to watch and draw other artists.” (Hibbard, 16) With Florence being the home of the cultural rebirth, Michelangelo was surrounded by the works of art of early Renaissance artist like Ghiberti and Donatello, from which he could draw inspiration. Apprenticeships It became apparent to Michelangelo’s father,…