Settignano

Despite their robust modeling, they seem schematic, as do many of the images of young blondes that follow, paintings by such masters as Filippo Lippi, Sandro Botticelli and the Pollaiuolo brothers, and suave marble busts by Desiderio da Settignano and Andrea del Verrocchio.

From Out of a Featureless Crowd Karen Wilkin 2012

[Return to the letter] 3 "At the suppressed convent of St. Baldasare at Coverciano on the road leading to Settignano."

New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn 2007

One kind, are gritty stones, of Settignano, and of

The Decameron 2004

They inspected accommodations of various kinds, and finally, through Prof. Willard Fiske, were directed to the Villa Viviani, near Settignano, on a hill to the eastward of

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Settignano, a little village just outside the city, and there he settled down.

Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters Amy Steedman

In 1860 it was restored at the expense of an Englishman, Temple Leader. 1¼ mile east from the part of Settignano road, whence the Vencigliato road ramifies, is

The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

They drove out to Settignano to visit the villa where he lived when a child, and which he owned all his life; and went to Casa Buonarroti in

Barbara's Heritage Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters Deristhe L. Hoyt

Settignano, has carved there a relief of Madonna and Child, surrounded by a garland of cherubim lovely and fair.

Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922

Really Tuscan in its birth, the art of the Quattrocento became at last almost wholly Florentine, a flower of the Val d'Arno or of the hills about it, where even to-day at Settignano, at Fiesole, at Majano, at

Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922

There is no other village near Florence that has so smiling a face as Settignano among the gardens.

Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922