Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi, professionally known as Domenico Ghirlandaio, was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Florence. Ghirlandaio was part of the so-called "third generation" of the Florentine Renaissance, along with Verrocchio, the Pollaiolo brothers and Sandro Botticelli. June 11, 1448 – January 20, 1494; died at 45. Alive at the same time as Leonardo da Vinci, Martin Luther, Christopher Columbus, Niccolò Machiavelli, and François Villon. Wiki link