Tommaso Ghirlandaio
Tommaso Ghirlandaio , actually Tommaso di Currado di Doffo Bigordi or Tommaso di Corrado di Dosso Bigordi , (* 1424 in Florence ; † probably after 1480 there) was an Italian leather and silk merchant, money broker, wreath seller and possibly also a goldsmith and silversmith.
Little is known about the life of Tommaso Ghirlandaios. He was married twice. After the death of his first wife Antonia, with whom he had sons Domenico , Davide and Benedetto Ghirlandaio , known as painter and miniature painter , he married Antonia di Filippo di Francesco del Puzzola, with whom he had a daughter named Alessandra.
According to the tradition of Vasari , Tommaso was a celebrated goldsmith and silversmith who made silver votive offerings for a lamp for the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata in Florence . Above all, however, he is said to have been famous for his hair accessories made of gold and silver for young girls. According to tradition, his own inventions in this area included a particularly striking form of decorative garlands, after which he was given the nickname Ghirlandaio by his contemporaries, which his sons later adopted. Since there is so far no further evidence that Tommaso actually worked as a goldsmith and silversmith apart from this mention by Vasari, it cannot be completely ruled out from today's perspective that this information is possibly only a romantic embellishment, and his The nickname Ghirlandaio possibly only goes back to the fact that he also worked as a wreath-winder. Perhaps the fact that his sons were all trained as goldsmiths first and his daughter Alessandra was married to the goldsmith Antonio di Salvi in a second marriage can be seen as evidence that goldsmithing had a certain tradition in the Ghirlandaio workshop.
literature
- Ghirlandaio, Tommaso . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 563 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Luciano Berti: Ghirlandaio, Domenico, Bigordi, called . In: Kindlers Malereilexikon , Vol. 2, 1964–1971, pp. 602 ff.
- Eberhard Kasten: Ghirlandaio, Tommaso . In: General artist lexicon , database edition (not included in the print edition)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eberhart Kasten, Ghirlandaio, Tommaso , In: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ghirlandaio, Tommaso |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bigordi, Tommaso di Currado di Doffo; Bigordi, Tommaso di Corrado di Dosso |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian leather and silk dealer, money broker, wreath seller and possibly gold and silversmith |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1424 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Florence |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1480 |
| Place of death | Florence |