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Alternative names	Birth name: Domenico di Tommaso Bigordi; Domenico Currado Bigordi; Domenico Ghirlandajo; Domenico Grillandajo
Description	Italian painter
Date of birth/death	2 June 1448	11 January 1494
Location of birth/death	Florence	Florence
Work location	San Gimignano (1475), Rome (1475), Florence, Rome (1477–1478), Settimo (1479), Lucca (1479), Florence (1480), Poltava (1480–1481), Rome (1481), San Gimignano (1482), Florence (1482–1492), Pisa
Authority file	: Q191423 VIAF: 61554420 ISNI: 0000000121017520 ULAN: 500115228 LCCN: n83319383 NLA: 35053714 WorldCat

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Detail of The Visitation in the Tornabuoni chapel in Santa Maria Novella church in Florence, showing the "jag" (i.e., the cut) in the sleeve of the gown.

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circa 1488

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http://keptar.demasz.hu/arthp/html/g/ghirland/tornabuo/index.htm

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GHIRLANDAIO, Domenico

(b. 1449, Firenze, d. 1494, Firenze)

Giovanna Tornabuoni and her Accompaniment (detail, right side) 1486-90 Fresco Cappella Tornabuoni, Santa Maria Novella, Florence

This is the right side of the scene representing the visitation of Our Lady and St Elisabeth, accompanied by women wearing costumes of the day. The fresco is part of cycle narrating the life of St John the Baptist. The cycle occupies the right wall of the chapel.

The Visitation is one of the most moving gospel stories in artistic iconography - the meeting between two women who carry within themselves two miracles: the already aged Elisabeth who through divine will conceived a son who would be the precursor of Christ; and the young Mary, who "knew not man" and conceived Jesus through the Holy Spirit. Ghirlandaio's meeting takes place in open hilly terrain that a wall divides from a city on the far horizon - Florence with the lofty "campanile" of Santa Maria Novella and other towers.

The detail presented here shows various women spectators witnessing the meeting. Among them Vasari identifies "... Ginevra de'Benci, a most beautiful girl". The person he refers to is standing on the right, though it is much more probable that she is actually Giovanna degli Albizzi, who in those very years became the wife of Lorenzo Tornabuoni. This marriage which united the Albizzi family (long-standing enemies of the Medici) with the Tornabuoni family (their relatives and good friends) seemed to be a symbol of peace.

Giovanna degli Albizzi is sketched with firmness and decision, almost as if she were modelled in a rather cold material, like precious stone. The lavish dress, with its shining silk and golden embroidery, is typical of the refined Florentine elegance of the time. The lines of her face are clear and precise, as in a glossy cameo, and she has simply-plaited blond hair. Behind her, in much plainer clothes are Dianora Tornabuoni, the young wife of Pier Soderini, and another no better identified woman wearing ordinary clo