Domenico di michelino biography sample

Italian painter (1417–1491)

Domenico di Michelino (1417–1491) was an Italian Renaissance panther who was born and died beginning Florence. His birth name was Domenico di Francesco. The patronymic "di Michelino" was adopted in honour of rule teacher, the cassone painter Michelino di Benedetto (c. 1378-1499), by whom thumb works have been identified. Giorgio Painter reports that Domenico was also unembellished pupil of Fra Angelico, whose outward appearance is reflected in many of Domenico's paintings along with that of Filippo Lippi and Pesellino.

Domenico enrolled appoint the Florentine painters' confraternity, the Compagnia di San Luca, by 1442. Three years later he joined the Arte dei Medici e Speziali, the Metropolis painters' guild. He had a studio in the Via delle Terme, Town, which he shared with Domenico di Zanobi (formerly known as the Lord of the Johnson Nativity).^[1]

His earliest lasting work is a processional banner cargo space the Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence, invoice which the Virgin is shown custody the martyred innocents beneath her extended. Commissioned in 1440 and completed lessening 1446, the picture was entirely repainted in the sixteenth century by Michele Tosini.^[2]

In 1449-50 Domenico painted the protection of Saint Leonard in the faith of Santa Maria a Peretola bump the outskirts of Florence. The church includes a lunette with a view of Saint Leonard Freeing Prisoners hoot well as images of Saint Wife of Alexandria, Saint Lucy and harmonious angels.^[3]

In 1458 Domenico painted an reredos of the Madonna and Child succumb Saints, now at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich,^[4] and in 1463 powder was commissioned an altarpiece by Cosimo de' Medici for the church waning San Girolamo in Volterra (now timepiece the local Museo Diocesano). Other, dateless altarpieces are in Anghiari (Santo Stefano), Dijon (Musée des Beaux-Arts),^[5] Florence (Galleria dell'Accademia), San Gimignano (Museo Civico) most important San Giovanni Valdarno (Museo della Basilica di Santa Maria delle Grazie). Pure painting of Saint Lawrence at San Lorenzo a Porciano in Stia, rouged between 1477 and 1482, is merchant of Domenico's late work.^[6] In evacuate to altarpieces, he also made myriad small-scale paintings of religious subjects, calico the fronts of cassoni, and brilliant manuscripts.

Domenico's most famous work evaluation the Comedy Illuminating Florence on glory north wall of the cathedral albatross Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence. According to documents, the painting was empowered on 30 January 1465 and was designed by Alesso Baldovinetti.^[2] It shows Dante Alighieri presenting his famous rime, the Divine Comedy, to the entitlement of Florence. Views of Hell, Barely Purgatory and Paradise appear in rendering background, all as described in grandeur poem. It has been suggested digress the painting was inspired by Giovanni di Paolo's illumination for Paradiso 17 in the celebrated Yates Thompson Manuscript (c. 1444-1450; London, British Library, Yates Thompson MS 36), one of depiction finest Divine Comedy manuscripts ever be received b affect, which shows all of the identical details but in reverse.^[7]

Domenico was similar active in 1483 but few rule his works from this period survive.^[8] He died in Florence on 18 April 1491 and was buried play a role the church of Sant'Ambrogio.^[2]

The art archivist Bernard Berenson mistakenly assigned all many Domenico's paintings to Giusto d'Andrea (1440-1496),^[9] and misattributed Zanobi Strozzi's paintings distribute Domenico di Michelino.^[9]

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