GHIRLANDAIO, Domenico
(b. 1449, Firenze, d. 1494, Firenze)

Angel Appearing to Zacharias (detail)

1486-90
Fresco
Cappella Tornabuoni, Santa Maria Novella, Florence

This series of portraits of contemporary Neoplatonists, their heads all at the same level, continues the row of classical heads in the relief behind them - this is Ghirlandaio's way of presenting Neoplatonists as a continuation of the classical intellectual tradition.