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Tommaso Bigordi, a goldsmith, was so clever in designing a pretty garland for women's hair that he was called Ghirlandaio, the garland-maker, and his painter son Domenico is therefore known for ever as Uomenico Ghirlandaio. And so forth. To return to Botticelli. In 1447, when he was born, Fra Angelico was sixty; and Masaccio had been dead for some years.
It is a good deal of a name Domenico di Tommaso di Currado Bigordi and it would appear that the child who bore it was under obligation to become a good deal of a something before he died. Italian and Spanish painters generally had large names to live up to, and the one known as Ghirlandajo did nobly.
His full name was Domenico or Tommaso di Currado di Doffo Bigordi, but his father Tommaso Bigordi, a goldsmith, having hit upon a peculiarly attractive way of making garlands for the hair, was known as Ghirlandaio, the garland maker; and time has effaced the Bigordi completely.
See the bas-relief upon the pedestal of his "Perseus" in the Loggia de' Lanzi. In the National Gallery. His family name was Domenico di Currado di Doffo Bigordi. He probably worked during his youth and early manhood as a goldsmith and got his artist's name from the trade of making golden chaplets for the Florentine women. See Vasari, vol. v. p. 66.
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