Example sentences for: ghirlandaio

How can you use “ghirlandaio” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Covering the chancel behind the main altar, the Ghirlandaio frescoes of the lives of the Madonna and St. John kept the master’s entire workshop busy from 1485 to 1490.

  • Ghirlandaio’s 13-year-old apprentice — Michelangelo Buonarroti — must have picked up a few tips for his future commission of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.

  • His Flemish contemporary Hugo van der Goes is more down-to-earth in the realism of his huge triptych Adoration of the Shepherds (1478), which influenced Florentine painters like Ghirlandaio.

  • In Florence, where his family had to fight tooth and nail to hold on to their supremacy, Lorenzo “il Magnifico” de’ Medici (1449–1492) found time to encourage the art of Perugino, Ghirlandaio, Botticelli, the young Leonardo, and tempestuous Michelangelo.

  • Pants were an old story, and they were no longer strictly male; but the 1960s short-tunic-and-tights costume, especially when worn with high boots, cropped hair, and a hip-level belt, seemed to put girls into the clothes of Renaissance youths, so they looked like Carpaccio dandies or Ghirlandaio toughs.


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