Desiderio da Settignano - Biography, Selected works

Sculptor, born in Settignano, NC Italy. He worked in the early Renaissance style, influenced by Donatello and Della Robbia, producing many notable portrait busts of women and children.

Biography

He came from a family of stone carvers and stone masons in Settignano, near Florence.

In 1450-55 he finished a frieze with cherubims in the Pazzi Chapel of Santa Croce in Florence. Of circa 1455 is the bust of Marietta Strozzi, now in Berlin, and a Maledeine in polychrome wood, for the church of Santa Trinita in Florence;

In 1461 he finished a Tabernacle for the Sacrament Chapel in San Lorenzo.

He died in Florence in 1464.

Giorgio Vasari includes a biography of Desiderio da Settignano in his Lives of the Artists.

Selected works

The tomb of Carlo Marsuppini in Santa Croce, Florence Coat of Arms of the Gianfigliazzi and Minerbetti Families (c.1445-50) - stone Beauregard Madonna (c.1455) - marble relief A Little Boy (c.1455-1460) - marble bust Virgin and Child (c.1455-1460) - marble relief The Christ Child (c. 1460) - marble bust The Altar of the Sacrament in San Lorenzo, Florence (completed in 1461) Saint Jerome in the Desert (c.1461) - marble