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Domenico Bigordi was an Italian painter.

He worked mainly in his native city, Florence, becoming one of the protagonists of the Renaissance at the time of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Around 1480 in particular he became the official portrait painter of Florentine high society, thanks to his precise, pleasant and fast style. Head of a large and efficient workshop, in which even the thirteen-year-old Michelangelo Buonarroti took his first steps in the field of art, Ghirlandaio is remembered above all for the great frescoed cycles, such as some scenes of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, the Sassetti Chapel and the Tornabuoni Chapel in his hometown. Domenico was part of the so-called "third generation" of the Florentine Renaissance, together with masters such as Verrocchio, the brothers of Pollaiolo (Antonio and Piero) and the young Sandro Botticelli.