. The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages . softest and tenderest of his pictures in execution. A beautiful Madonna ofMantegnas, still later in time, is in the National Gallery of England. Ghirlandajo was properly Domenico Bicordi, but inherited from hisfather, a goldsmith in Florence, the by-name of Ghirlandajo or Garland-maker—adistinctive appellation said to have been acquired by the elder man from his skill inmaking silver garlands for the heads of Florentine women and children. DomenicoGhirlandajo worked at his fathers craft till he was twenty-four year
. The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages . softest and tenderest of his pictures in execution. A beautiful Madonna ofMantegnas, still later in time, is in the National Gallery of England. Ghirlandajo was properly Domenico Bicordi, but inherited from hisfather, a goldsmith in Florence, the by-name of Ghirlandajo or Garland-maker—adistinctive appellation said to have been acquired by the elder man from his skill inmaking silver garlands for the heads of Florentine women and children. DomenicoGhirlandajo worked at his fathers craft till he was twenty-four years of age, when,having in the mean time evinced great cleverness in taking the likenesses of thefrequenters of Ghirlandajo the elders shop, the future painter abandoned the gold-smiths trade for art pure and simple. He soon vindicated the wisdom of the stepwhich he had taken by giving proofs of something of the strength of Masaccio, unitedwith a reflection of the feeling of Fra Angelico. Ghirlandajo was summoned soon to Rome to paint in the Sistine Chapel, after-. y M© ©1=1 H ——i GHIRLANDAJO. 39 wards to be so glorious ; but his greatest works were done in the prime of hismanhood, in his native city, Florence, where he was chosen as the teacher of MichaelAngelo, who was apprenticed to Ghirlandajo for three years. While still in the flower of his age and crowned with golden opinions, being, it issaid, with effusion, the delight of his city, Ghirlandajo died after a short illness. In Ghirlandajos time Florence had reached her meridian, and her citizensoutvied each other in the magnificence of their gifts to their fair mother was fitted to be their painter; himself a generous-spirited artist, in theexuberance of life and power, he wished that his fellow-citizens would give him allthe walls of the city to cover with frescoes. He was content with the specified sumfor his painting, desiring more the approbation of his employers than additionalcrowns. His geniu
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