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| Melozzo da Forlì and workshop Prophets and Angels with Symbols of the Passion ca. 1477 vault fresco Santuario della Santa Casa, Loreto |
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| Melozzo da Forlì and workshop Prophets and Angels with Symbols of the Passion (detail) ca. 1477 vault fresco Santuario della Santa Casa, Loreto |
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| Melozzo da Forlì and workshop Prophets and Angels with Symbols of the Passion (detail) ca. 1477 vault fresco Santuario della Santa Casa, Loreto |
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| Melozzo da Forlì and workshop Prophets and Angels with Symbols of the Passion (detail) ca. 1477 vault fresco Santuario della Santa Casa, Loreto |
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| Melozzo da Forlì and workshop Prophets and Angels with Symbols of the Passion (detail) ca. 1477 vault fresco Santuario della Santa Casa, Loreto |
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| Melozzo da Forlì and workshop Prophets and Angels with Symbols of the Passion (detail) ca. 1477 vault fresco Santuario della Santa Casa, Loreto |
Melozzo da Forlì (1438-1494) – Painter and perhaps architect from Forlì in Romagna, active also in Urbino, Rome, and Loreto. He was celebrated by contemporaries for his skill in illusionistic perspective. Traditionally a disciple of Piero della Francesca, he would have known the latter's works in Urbino, as well as those of that other researcher into perspective, Uccello. His own painting, however, is more vigorously realistic than that of either of his masters. . . . Melozzo's vault fresco at Loreto was largely executed by his best-known pupil and assistant, Marco Palmezzano (1459/63-1539). Its scheme of painted architecture and foreshortened seated prophets may have influenced Michelangelo's early designs for the Sistine Chapel ceiling."
– Erika Langmuir and Norbert Lynton, Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists (2000)
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| Domenico Ghirlandaio and workshop Works of Mercy Cycle Burying the Dead ca. 1478-81 fresco Chiesa di San Martino al Vescovo, Florence |
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| Domenico Ghirlandaio and workshop Works of Mercy Cycle Burying the Dead (detail) ca. 1478-81 fresco Chiesa di San Martino al Vescovo, Florence |
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| Domenico Ghirlandaio and workshop Works of Mercy Cycle Giving the Thirsty to Drink ca. 1478-81 fresco Chiesa di San Martino al Vescovo, Florence |
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| Domenico Ghirlandaio and workshop Works of Mercy Cycle St Martin dividing his Cloak with the Beggar ca. 1478-81 fresco Chiesa di San Martino al Vescovo, Florence |
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| Domenico Ghirlandaio and workshop Works of Mercy Cycle St Martin dividing his Cloak with the Beggar (detail) ca. 1478-81 fresco Chiesa di San Martino al Vescovo, Florence |
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| Domenico Ghirlandaio and workshop Works of Mercy Cycle St Martin's Dream (Christ revealing that He was the Beggar) ca. 1478-81 fresco Chiesa di San Martino al Vescovo, Florence |
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| Domenico Ghirlandaio and workshop Works of Mercy Cycle Visiting the Imprisoned ca. 1478-81 fresco Chiesa di San Martino al Vescovo, Florence |
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| Domenico Ghirlandaio and workshop Works of Mercy Cycle Visiting the Imprisoned (detail) ca. 1478-81 fresco Chiesa di San Martino al Vescovo, Florence |
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| Domenico Ghirlandaio and workshop Works of Mercy Cycle Visiting the Imprisoned (detail) ca. 1478-81 fresco Chiesa di San Martino al Vescovo, Florence |
Domenico Ghirlandaio (ca. 1448-1494) – Florentine painter. With his painter-mosaicist brother Davide, he ran one of the leading workshops in Florence, ca. 1480-94, specializing in frescoes but also producing mosaics and works in tempera on panel; the young Michelangelo was apprenticed to him, 1488-89. His son Ridolfo Ghirlandaio (1483-1561) was trained after Domenico's death by Davide, later by Fra Bartolomeo, and was deeply influence by Leonardo da Vince. . . . Although to modern eyes Domenico's work is apt to look prosaic, it exemplifies the concerns of the most advanced Florentine artists in the last days of the Medicean Republic. Deeply rooted in Florentine traditions, he looked to Giotto and Masaccio (via Filippo Lippi) for patterns of narrative and perspectival construction, and used almost entirely the tried-and-true techniques advocated by Cennino Cennini."
– Erika Langmuir and Norbert Lynton, Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists (2000)