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His celebrated Annunciation faces the top of the stairs — compare the simpler version in cell 3 — while other outstanding works include the mystic Transfiguration in cell 6 and Jesus Mocked in cell 7. In the small refectory is the important Ghirlandaio mural of the Last Supper, a subject traditionally found in monastic dining rooms.
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.
Ghirlandaio, master teacher of Leonardo da Vinci, decorated the Sassetti Chapel (far right of the high altar) with frescoes of St. Francis, and the Adoration of the Shepherds on the altar is considered his masterpiece.
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.
The other wall frescoes by Botticelli, Pinturicchio, Ghirlandaio, and Signorelli are barely given attention.
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