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| Keywords: Argyropoulos (detail) Calling of the Apostles.JPG cropped and slightly enhanced version of Image Calling of the Apostles detail GHIRLANDAIO Domenico 1481 JPG en John Argyropoulos 1415-1487 as depicted by Domenico Ghirlandaio in 1481 Argyropulus is among the Florentines the old man with the resentful expression and rather weak face framed by a short white beard and with his head covered by a strange hard almost prelatic hat The Greek John Argyropulus born in Constantinople but driven out by the Turks in 1453 had found refuge in Florence in the cultivated circle of the Medici whose guest he was for fifteen years He had held the professorship of Greek at the university of Florence and Lorenzo il Magnifico had made him a citizen of Florence which had become the city of his choice When Argyropulus was called to Rome by Sixtus IV he continued to regard himself as a Florentine and as such with the others Ghirlandaio portrayed him http //www wga hu/cgi-bin/highlight cgi file html/g/ghirland/domenico/3fresco/2sistin2 html find Apostles GHIRLANDAIO Domenico b 1449 Firenze d 1494 Firenze 1481 http //commons wikimedia org/wiki/File Calling_of_the_Apostles_ detail _GHIRLANDAIO _Domenico_1481 JPG Original source slightly modified by User Batraqote PD-old-100 Johannes Argyropulos 1480s paintings Calling of the apostles by Domenico Ghirlandaio Sistine Chapel | ||||
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