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  Jean K. Cadogan sheds light on this unjustly overlooked master in her new biography, which admirably situates Ghirlandaio in the network of guilds and religious confraternities that defined Renaissance Florence. Domenico Ghirlandaio: An Elite Artisan and His World balances technical insights into the artist’s drawing and painting technique with broader discussions of the trajectory of Italian painting, making for a pleasant introduction to a painter renowned for his buon aria.

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  New Criterion

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  Written by the leading Ghirlandaio scholar, Domenico Ghirlandaio: An Elite Artisan and His World presents a fresh interpretation of the renowned painter within the dynamic social and artistic networks of Renaissance Florence. Jean K. Cadogan vividly identifies his contributions to narrative, portraiture, and technique, confirming his importance to Italian art.

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  Diane Cole Ahl, Arthur J. ’55 and Barbara S. Rothkopf Professor Emerita of Art History at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania

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  In this beautifully conceived and produced volume, Jean K. Cadogan introduces readers to the lives of artisans in fifteenth-century Florence through Domenico Ghirlandaio’s life, family, and social relations. With her years of intimate study of Ghirlandaio’s paintings and drawings, Cadogan foregrounds Ghirlandaio’s craft of painting through her discussions of his materials, painting techniques, and use of drawings as a means of invention.

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  Maria DePrano, Professor of Art History, University of California, Merced, and author of Art, Patronage, and Gender in Renaissance Florence: The Tornabuoni

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  Richly synthetic, gracefully written, and fully documented, Jean K. Cadogan’s biography of Ghirlandaio brings the enchanting Florentine artist alive in singular fashion. I know of no book that gives us such a full picture of the artist’s life and work in context. It is at once biography, art history, connoisseurship, iconography and art “appreciation”. A pleasure to read.

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  Paul Barolsky, Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of Virginia

Introduction
1 Casa Ghirlandaio: Family, Wealth and Social Status
2 Building Networks: Guilds and Confraternities
3 Making a Career: The Itinerant Artist
4 ‘A Good Master on Panel and Even More So on Walls’: Paintings for the Pope, the City and the Merchant Elite
5 The ‘Expeditious’ Artist: Ghirlandaio’s Drawings and Workshop Production
Conclusion: ‘A Man to be Reckoned With’

References
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index

Jean K. Cadogan is Professor of Fine Arts at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. She has published widely on Renaissance Florentine art, and her books include Domenico Ghirlandaio: Artist and Artisan (2000).