Example sentences for: ghirlandaio

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  • In sharp contrast, the Ghirlandaio frescoes in its tiny Santa Fina Chapel (at the end of the right aisle) are a series of sophisticated social portraits (1475) dedicated to the young patron saint of San Gimignano.

  • 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.

  • Botticelli is buried in a chapel (right transept), his St. Augustine adorning the church, while in the refectory in the adjoining cloister, you’ll find Ghirlandaio’s Last Supper.

  • On the second floor, the Sala dei Gigli (Hall of the Lilies) is brilliantly decorated in blues and golds with Florentine heraldry and vivid Ghirlandaio frescoes of Roman and early Christian history.


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