Ghirlandaio : 3 Articles

Can we talk about the Renaissance? The subject matter overwhelms me, the grandeur of the Renaissance painters terrifies me to the point of feeling overwhelmed...

Certainly, within the immense breadth of the narrative of art history, works of rectangular or square format stand out in popularity and recurrence, which have often overshadowed the less common round or, even other shaped media.

Christmas, or the day celebrating the birth of Jesus, has been immortalized by many famous works of art depicting the Nativity, among which are noteworthy those made by Duccio di Buoninsegna, Giotto, Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, El Greco and Caravaggio. It is important to underline, however, that this theme has also been dealt with in a profane context, such as in the births painted by Chagall and Dali...