Domenico Ghirlandaio

Written by the leading Ghirlandaio scholar, Domenico Ghirlandaio: An Elite Artisan and His World presents a fresh interpretation of the renowned painter within the dynamic social and artistic networks of Renaissance Florence. Jean K. Cadogan vividly identifies his contributions to narrative, portraiture, and technique, confirming his importance to Italian art. * Diane Cole Ahl, Arthur J. ’55 and Barbara S. Rothkopf Professor Emerita of Art History at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania *
In this beautifully conceived and produced volume, Jean K. Cadogan introduces readers to the lives of artisans in fifteenth-century Florence through Domenico Ghirlandaio’s life, family, and social relations. With her years of intimate study of Ghirlandaio’s paintings and drawings, Cadogan foregrounds Ghirlandaio’s craft of painting through her discussions of his materials, painting techniques, and use of drawings as a means of invention. * Maria DePrano, Professor of Art History, University of California, Merced, and author of Art, Patronage, and Gender in Renaissance Florence: The Tornabuoni *
Richly synthetic, gracefully written, and fully documented, Jean K. Cadogan’s biography of Ghirlandaio brings the enchanting Florentine artist alive in singular fashion. I know of no book that gives us such a full picture of the artist’s life and work in context. It is at once biography, art history, connoisseurship, iconography and art “appreciation”. A pleasure to read. * Paul Barolsky, Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of Virginia *