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

View of the Tornabuoni Chapel

1485-90
Fresco
Santa Maria Novella, Florence

The picture shows a view toward the north of the Tornabuoni Chapel in Santa Maria Novella. On the right wall are scenes from the life of St John the Baptist; on the left wall, scenes from the life of the Virgin; in the lunette of the window wall the Coronation of the Virgin; below it, on the left, St Dominic burning heretical writings, and the Annunciation to the Virgin; on the right, the martyrdom of St Peter Martyr, and the young John the Baptist in the wilderness; in the vaulting the four evangelists.




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