GHIRLANDAJO (ger-lan-da'yo), IL. DOMENICO CURRADI, nick-named Il Ghir landajo ("the garland-maker"), an Ital ian painter; born in Florence, Italy, in 1449. As a youth he was apprenticed to a goldsmith, and it was not until his 31st year that he became known as a painter. He painted principally frescoes, and in his native city. The Church of Ognisanti there contains from his hand a "St. Jerome" and a "Last Supper" (1480) ; the Palazzo Vecchio, the "Apo theosis of St. Zenobius" (1481-1485) ; the church of St. Trinita, six subjects from the life of St. Francis (1485) and an altar-piece, the "Adoration of the Shepherds"; the choir of St. Maria No vella, a series illustrating the lives of the Virgin and the Baptist (1490). Be tween 1482 and 1484 he painted for Pope Sixtus IV., in the Sistine Chapel at Rome, the excellent fresco "Christ Call ing Peter and Andrew," and about the same time two pictures in the chapel of St. Fina at San Gimignano. Besides these
he also executed some easel pictures of great merit, as "Adoration of the Magi" (1488), in the church of the Innocents at Florence; the "Visitation of the Vir gin" (1491). in the Louvre; the "Adora tion of the Virgin by the Saints," in the Uffizi at Florence; and "Christ in Glory," at Volterra. He also executed mosaics, that of the "Annunciation" in the cathe dral of Florence being especially cele brated. He died in Florence, Italy, Jan. 11, 1494.
GHffE (Or), or GHORE (Or), a mountainous district of western Afghan istan, lying S. E. from Herat and N.
W. from Kandahar; inhabited by zaras and Eimaks, and since 1845 has been included in the territory of Herat.