Ridolfo's masterpieces include a number of altarpieces, including the
Madonna della Cintola (1503–09) over the door of the
cathedral in Prato; the
Way to Calvary for the church of San Gallo, Florence (now London,
National Gallery); the
Coronation of the Virgin (1504), originally at San Jacopo di Ripoli, Florence, and now at the
Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon; and the
Nativity for the cathedral in Basel, Switzerland, and now at the
Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. For the
Oratory of the Bigallo, Florence, he painted the predella (1515) to its venerated altarpiece; this predella consists of five panels representing the
Nativity, Flight into Egypt, Madonna of Mercy and other subjects such as the Bigallo performing charitable burials. He painted several altarpieces for the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova, Florence, and its dependencies. In 1514 Ridolfo completed one of his most prominent civic commissions: the frescoes in the chapel of Saint Bernard in the Palazzo Pubblico (now
Palazzo Vecchio), Florence. These include images of the
Trinity surrounded by the heads of the twelve apostles and other accessories, a lunette of the
Annunciation and another with the
Vision of Saint Bernard. In 1517 he painted two large panels of
Saint Zenobius Resuscitating a Child and the
Translation of the Body of Saint Zenobius. These panels, now at the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence, originally flanked a large
Annunciation by
Mariotto Albertinelli, now also at the Accademia. Later works include the
Assumption of the Virgin (1519–24) for Santa Maria dei Battillani, Florence (now Berlin,
Gemäldegalerie), which includes a self portrait; a
Pietà (1521) for Sant'Agostino,
Colle di Val d'Elsa; and the
Madonna and Child with Saints (1528) for at San Pietro Maggiore in
Pistoia. He painted a portrait of a young
Cosimo I de' Medici, future Grand-Duke, now in the Uffizi. In 1543 he completed a series of frescoes in the monastery of
Santa Maria degli Angeli, Florence. Many of his last works were finished or realized entirely by his pupil and heir, Michele Tosini, also called Michele di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio on account of his close relationship with Ridolfo. His portraits include fine examples at the
Art Institute of Chicago, the
Galleria Palatina in Florence, the
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the
Museo Thyssen Bornemisza in Madrid and the
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, among others. Among his small-scale devotional works is the
Adoration by the Shepherds at the
Raclin Murphy Museum of Art at Notre Dame University, Indiana, and a small triptych of the same subject at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. File:Ridolfo Ghirlandaio Columbus.jpg|
Portrait of Columbus. Pegli (Genoa), Museo Navale. File:Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio - Portrait of a Woman - WGA08926.jpg|
Portrait of a Lady. Florence, Galleria Palatina. File:Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio 003.jpg|
Portrait of a Man. Madrid, Museo Thyssen Bornemisza. File:Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio 005.jpg|
Portrait of Baldo Magni. Prato, Museo di Palazzo Pretorio. File:Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio - Portrait of an Old Man - WGA08924.jpg|
Portrait of a Man. Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum. ==Notes==