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DESIDERIO DA SETTIGNANO (1428–1464) , See also:Italian sculptor, was See also:born at Settignano, a See also:village on the See also:southern slope of the See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill
of See also:Fiesole, still surrounded by the quarries of See also:sandstone of which the hill is formed, and inhabited by a See also:race of " See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone-cutters." Desiderio was for a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of See also:Donatello, whom, according to See also:Vasari, he assisted in the See also:work on the See also:pedestal of See also:David, and he seems to have worked also with Mino da Fiesole, with the delicate and refined See also:style of whose See also:works those of Desiderio seem to have a closer See also:affinity than with the perhaps more masculine See also:tone of Donatello. Vasari particularly extols the sculptor's treatment of the figures of , See also:women and See also:children. It does not appear that Desiderio ever worked else-where than at See also:Florence; and it is there that those who are interested in the Italian See also:sculpture of the See also:Renaissance must seek his few surviving decorative and monumental works, though a number of his delicately carved See also:marble busts of women and children are to be found in the museums and private collections of See also:Germany and See also:France. The most prominent of his works are the See also:tomb of the secretary of See also:state, Marsuppini, in See also:Santa Croce, and the See also:great marble See also:tabernacle of the See also:Annunciation in See also:San Lorenzo, both of which belong to the latter See also:period of Desiderio's activity; and the cherubs' heads which See also:form the exterior See also:frieze of the Pazzi See also:Chapel. Vasari mentions a marble bust by Desiderio of See also:Marietta degli See also:Strozzi, which for many years was held to be identical with a very beautiful bust bought in 1878 from the Strozzi See also:family for the See also:Berlin Museum. This bust is now, however, generally acknowledged to be the work of See also:Francesco Laurana; whilst Desiderio's bust of Marietta has been recognized in another marble portrait acquired by the Berlin Museum in 1842. The Berlin Museum also owns a coloured See also:plaster bust of an See also:Urbino See also:lady by Desiderio, the See also:model for which is in the See also:possession of the See also:earl of See also:Wemyss. Other important busts by the See also:master are in the Bargello, Florence, the Louvre in See also:Paris, the collections of M. Figdor and M. See also:Benda in See also:Vienna, and of M. See also:Dreyfus in Paris. Like most of Donatello's pupils, Desiderio worked chiefly in marble, and not a single work in See also:bronze has been traced to his See also:hand.
See Wilhelm See also:Bode, See also:Die italienische Plastik (Berlin, 1893).
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