1872
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Copy after Calling of the Apostoles, Domenico Ghirlandaio in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican (Rome) is a 1872 watercolor by Domenico Ghirlandaio, a Early Renaissance work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor shows a crowd of men in robes, arms raised toward Jesus. The scene is busy but orderly, with bright colors and sharp lines. You can almost hear the quiet hum of conversation. Fattorini copied Ghirlandaio’s 1481 fresco scene by scene, brushstroke by brushstroke. Most 1800s artists never saw the real Sistine Chapel murals. They relied on prints like this one. Look next at Ghirlandaio, Domenico.
This watercolour by Eliseo Fattorini, created in 1872, reproduces Domenico Ghirlandaio’s fresco *The Calling of the Apostles* from the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. The scene depicts Christ addressing two kneeling figures on a shoreline, with coastal buildings and a marine landscape in the background. Commissioned by the Arundel Society to disseminate Renaissance art, the work reflects the 19th-century revival of interest in pre-Renaissance Italian painting. Ghirlandaio painted the original fresco in 1481–1482 as part of the Chapel’s decorative program, which juxtaposed scenes from the…
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Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi (2 June 1448 – 11 January 1494), professionally known as Domenico Ghirlandaio (also spelt as Ghirlandajo), was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Florence.
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