Desiderio da Settignano (c.1430-1464) was an Italian sculptor active during the Renaissance. He came from a family of stone carvers and stone masons. His work shows the influence of Donatello, specifically his use of low reliefs.
His works include:
The tomb of Carlo Marsuppini in Santa Croce, Florence
Giorgio Vasari includes a biography of Desiderio da Settignano in his Lives of the Artists. [1] (http://www.artist-biography.info/artist/desiderio_da_settignano/)
DesideriodaSettignano was a sculptor of considerable talent, whose work is fairly representative of artistic creativity in Florence during the 14th Century.
Together with Antonio Rossellino and Mino da Fiesole he belonged to the second generation of sculptors that was responsible for developing and transforming the discoveries of the first Renaissance artists: Lorenzo Ghiberti, Filippo Brunelleschi, Luca della Robbia and Donatello.
The exhibition is divided into thematic sections, each intending to exploit Desiderio's preferred subjects and styles - the secular or sacred bust, the three-dimensional sculpture, the devotional bas-relief and the decorative sculpture - and to encourage comparisons that may provide a greater insight into the artist's work.
The most prominent of his works are the tomb of the secretary of state, Marsuppini, in Santa Croce, and the great marble tabernacle of the Annunciation in San Lorenzo, both of which belong to the latter period of Desiderio's activity; and the cherubs' heads which form the exterior frieze of the Pazzi Chapel.
Vasari mentions a marble bust by Desiderio of Marietta degli Strozzi, which for many years was held to be identical with a very beautiful bust bought in 1878 from the Strozzi family for the Berlin Museum.
The Berlin Museum also owns a colored plaster bust of an Urbino lady by Desiderio, the model for which is in the possession of the Earl of Wemyss.
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