GHIRLANDAIO, Domenico
(b. 1449, Firenze, d. 1494, Firenze)
GHIRLANDAIO, Domenico (b. 1449, Firenze, d. 1494, Firenze) |
|
Head of an Old Woman Wearing a Hood1489-90Metalpoint on salmon-pink prepared paper heightened with white, 231 x 184 mm Royal Library, Windsor | |
|
This drawing was made by Domenico Ghirlandaio for the most important commission of his career: the decoration of the huge chancel of the Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence. The decoration was commissioned by Giovanni Tornabuoni (1428-1497) in 1485. The present drawing is a preparatory for the mural of the Birth of Mary, which shows Tornabuoni's thirteen- or fourteen-year-old daughter Ludovica Tornabuoni with her entourage. | |
