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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.
Domenico Ghirlandajo was properly Domenico Bicordi, but inherited from his father, a goldsmith in Florence, the by-name of Ghirlandajo or Garland-maker a distinctive appellation said to have been acquired by the elder man from his skill in making silver garlands for the heads of Florentine women and children.
I knew that thou wouldst go abroad to-day, so I made this for thee in the morning; and when I was young I was called the garland-maker. It is better summer wear than thy basnet." He thanked her and did it on smiling, but somewhat ruefully; for he said to himself: "This is over old a dame that I should wear a love-token from her."
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