local features are used to set off groups of figures conceived in a spirit of noble realism; the compositions are formed in the spirit of Masaccio; the heads, many of them portraits, are drawn with the accurate and faithful pencil of a Holbein. In the portraits of the donors, Francesco Sassetti and his wife Nava, Ghirlandajo equalled the great German master in truth, in character, and in modelling. The altarpiece of this chapel, an Adoration of the Shepherds (1485), is now in the Florence Academy. Even more important than the frescos at S. Trinità are those of the Life of the Virgin (1490) in the choir of S. M. Novella. Among them, the Birth of the Virgin is a typical example of Ghirlandajo's style. Of the former altarpiece of this chapel, the Munich Gallery possesses the Madonna appearing to St. Dominic and other Saints, together with side-*panels of Saints Catherine and Laurence; and the Berlin Museum the Resurrection of Christ and Saints. Other works by Ghirlandajo are, a Madonna with Saints, and a predella, sacristy of S. Martino, Lucca; Madonna with Saints and Adoration of the Magi (1487), Adoration of Shepherds (1485, Uffizi), Florence; Madonna with Saints, Academy, ib.; Adoration of the Magi (1488), Chapel of the Hospital of the Innocenti, ib.; Christ in Glory, Palazzo Publico, Volterra; Visitation (1491), Louvre; St. Anthony, New York Museum.—C. & C., Italy, ii. 459; Vasari, ed. Mil., iii. 253, 279; Dohme, 2i.
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GHIRLANDAJO, RIDOLFO BIGORDI
called, born in Florence,
Feb. 14, 1483,
died there in 1561.
Florentine school; son
of Domenico; brought
up under guardianship
of his uncle, David.
Vasari says he studied
under Fra Bartolommeo,
but he was probably
most indebted for
guidance in art to Granacci, Piero di Cosimo,
and perhaps Rosselli. His Procession
of Christ and the Marys to Calvary, in Palazzo
Antinori a S. Gaetano, Florence, and
his Coronation of the Virgin (1504), Louvre,
are among his earliest works. Later works
show the influence of Fra Bartolommeo and
of Raphael, as the Nativity, Berlin Museum;
Nativity, Eszterhazy Collection, Vienna; and
a predella in the Oratory of Bigallo, Florence.
Raphael had great esteem for his
talent, and vainly tried to persuade him to
join him in Rome in 1508, as Ridolfo was
satisfied with his success in Florence. His
skill reached its highest point in his richly-*coloured,
well-composed, and expressive St.
Zanobius raising a Dead Child, and the Burial
of St. Zanobius, Uffizi, Florence. His
Madonna dropping her Girdle to St. Thomas
is in the church at Prato, and M. della
Misericordia in S. Felice, Florence. Ridolfo
became the most noted painter of his time
in Florence, where he executed many commissions
for the Medici.—C. & C., Italy, iii.
518; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., xi. 284; Marchesi,
ii. 141; Ch. Blanc, École florentine.
GHISOLFI (Grisolfi), GIOVANNI, born
in Milan in 1632, died there in 1683. Roman
school; architecture, landscape, and
history painter, pupil in Rome of Salvator
Rosa; esteemed as a painter of architecture,
he devoted himself after his return to Milan
to large histories and altarpieces, and executed
frescos for the Certosa of Pavia and
the Santuario of Varese. Works: Ruins of
Carthage, Ruins of Splendid Buildings,
Ships in a Seaport, Dresden Museum;
Ruins (2), National Gallery, Edinburgh.
GIACOMELLI, HECTOR, born in Paris
of foreign parents; contemporary. Bird
and flower painter in water-colours. L. of
Honour, 1878. Works: Birds and Flowers
(1878, 1879); Wounded (1879); Perch in a
Cage, Farniente (1883).
GIACOMOTTI, FÉLIX HENRI, born at
Quingey (Doubs), Nov. 18, 1828. French
school; genre and portrait painter, pupil of
Picot and the École des Beaux Arts; won
the grand prix de Rome in 1854. In 1859
he sent to the Salon his portraits of Edmond