1891
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Copy after The meeting of Augustus and the Sibyl, Domenico Ghirlandaio in the Sassetti Chapel, Chiesa di Santa Trinita (Florence) is a 1891 watercolor by Domenico Ghirlandaio, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a group of six people standing under a curved arch. They’re dressed in flowing robes of bright colors—reds, greens, blues—and one person is pointing upward. The arch has a patterned border with gold and leaf designs, and the sky above looks soft and cloudy. The people seem to be gathered around someone pointing at something in the distance, maybe a building or a distant event. The artist copied this scene from an older fresco, but this version is painted in watercolor. If you like this, check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like it.
A watercolour depicting a group of figures gazing and pointing toward the sky within an arched composition is framed as a scene. The work was executed in 1891 by Emilio Costantini as a copy after Domenico Ghirlandaio’s fresco in the Sassetti Chapel, and it was later acquired by the National Gallery of London in 1995. Published as chromolithographs in 1892 by Wilhelm Greve, the image reproduces Ghirlandaio’s original fresco from Santa Trinita in Florence.
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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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