1860
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Copy after the Nativity of the Virgin, Domenico Ghirlandaio in the Tornabuoni Chapel, Santa Maria Novella (Florence) is a 1860 watercolor by Domenico Ghirlandaio, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a group of women in a room with fancy carvings. One woman sits holding a baby while others stand around her. A staircase leads up to another woman in a doorway. The walls have small statues and gold designs. The artist copied an older painting of the Virgin Mary’s birth. The bright colors and soft edges look like a sketch. Check out Ghirlandaio, Domenico for more of his work.
This watercolour depicts a scene from the Nativity of the Virgin, showing a group of women tending to an infant, identified as the Virgin, while her mother reclines in a bed behind them. On the left, two haloed women embrace on a staircase, and the room features frescoed walls and ornately decorated columns. The work was created as a copy after Domenico Ghirlandaio’s fresco in the Tornabuoni Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence. It was acquired in 1995 from the National Gallery of London and originally published as a chromolithograph in 1895 by Wilhelm Greve for the Arundel Society.
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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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