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| Ridolfo Ghirlandaio Madonna della Cintola (detail) ca. 1508 oil on panel Duomo di Prato |
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| Ridolfo Ghirlandaio The Annunciation ca. 1515 oil on panel Pieve di San Pietro a Pitiana, Reggello |
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| Ridolfo Ghirlandaio The Annunciation (detail with Annunciatory Angel) ca. 1515 oil on panel Pieve di San Pietro a Pitiana, Reggello |
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| Ridolfo Ghirlandaio The Annunciation (detail with Virgin Annunciate) ca. 1515 oil on panel Pieve di San Pietro a Pitiana, Reggello |
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| Ridolfo Ghirlandaio Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici (age twelve) 1531 oil on panel Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Ridolfo Ghirlandaio Portrait of a Gentleman ca. 1505 oil and tempera on panel, transferred to canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Ridolfo Ghirlandaio Portrait of a Lady with a Rabbit ca. 1508 oil on panel Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Ridolfo Ghirlandaio Portrait of a Young Man ca. 1510 oil on panel Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Ridolfo Ghirlandaio Portrait of Lucrezia Sommaria ca. 1510 oil on panel National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Ridolfo Ghirlandaio Portrait of Girolamo Benivieni ca. 1510-20 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Ridolfo Ghirlandaio Posthumous Portrait of Christopher Columbus ca. 1520 oil on panel Museo Navale di Pegli, Genoa |
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| Ridolfo Ghirlandaio The Virgin and St John the Baptist intercede with Christ for the City of Prato as commended by St Sebastian and St Roch ca. 1530 oil on panel Oratorio di San Sebastiano, Prato |
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| Ridolfo Ghirlandaio and Michele Tosini Virgin and Child enthroned with St Anne, St Roch and St Joseph ca. 1530 oil on panel Chiesa dello Spirito Santo, Prato |
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| Ridolfo Ghirlandaio Assumption of the Virgin with St John the Baptist and St Francis ca. 1524 oil on panel Chiesa di San Giuseppe al Galluzzo, Florence |
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| Ridolfo Ghirlandaio Assumption of the Virgin with St John the Baptist and St Francis (detail) ca. 1524 oil on panel Chiesa di San Giuseppe al Galluzzo, Florence |
"Ridolfo Ghirlandaio was educated more by his uncle [the painter Davide Ghirlandaio] than his father [the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio], who died when Ridolfo was eleven. On this most conservative base other influences were imposed: first Piero di Cosimo's and the early, still pre-classical Fra Bartolommeo's; then the most modern ones of Leonardo – only superficially – and, with peculiar effectiveness, Raphael's. From 1507-8 for two or three succeeding years Ridolfo – Raphael's exact contemporary and, according to report (Vasari), his friend – overlaid the Ghirlandaiesque foundations of his art with a luminous veneer of Raphaelism, not merely imitated but much felt, and understood just sufficiently to give his forms a modicum of flexibility and grace. In portraiture the best approximation of the Florentine Raphael so far was Ridolfo's."
– S.J. Freedberg, Painting in Italy 1500-1600 in the Pelican History of Art series (1970)