Desiderio da Settignano

Desiderio de Bartolommeo di Francesco known as Desiderio da Settignano or Ferro (Settignano, about 1530 - Florence, 1464) is an Italian sculptor of the school florentine of the first Rebirth.

Biography

It was born at the village from Settignano, suburb of Florence, which gave him its name, in a family of stone masons. His/her two brothers, Francesco and Gerri, are themselves sculptors. He studies the art of the sculpture in the workshop of Bernardo Rossellino which will influence it much. As opposed to what affirms a legend based on the resemblance to the rilievo schiacciato of Donatello, Desiderio forever studied under the bunch of this artist (since Donatello is at that time in Rome and Padoue). At Bernardo Rossellino, it côtoie the younger brother of this one, Antonio Rossellino like Mino da Fiesole.

Its production can be dated after 1450 with a plank from Putti to the Pazzi vault about 1451, the monument of Carlo Marsuppini to Santa Croce started after 1453, where it is registered with the Arte dei Maestri di poor E legnami , the bust of Marietta Strozzi of 1455, the Marie-madeleine out of polychrome wooden for the church Santa Trinita and the gate vault for the vault of the Blessed Sacrament with San Lorenzo, completed in 1461.

He was the representative of the stil dolce by his control of the size of the marble.

He dies in 1464 to approximately 34 years.

Works

Jesus and Jean children in Tondo says Tondo Arconati-Visconti (gift with the Musée of Louvre by the Arconati-Visconti marchioness).
Furnace bridge of Blessed Sacrament, San Lorenzo (1461)
Tomb of Carlo Marsuppini, Santa Croce (after 1453)
Holy Jerome with the desert , *…

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