In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . nt. Donatello and Pisano and Verrocchio andthe others used decoration, but they were certainlyprimarily modelers of the human figure. Desiderio,Mino, and Benedetto seem, despite all their achieve-ments in modeling faces and bodies of cherubim andangels and recumbent men, primarily workers inarchitectural detail and ornamentation in marblecloths and hangings, leaves and flowers, shells anddesigns of dream fancy. They worked, too, almostexclusively in relief, while most of the others workedchiefly In the round. As to their relativ
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . nt. Donatello and Pisano and Verrocchio andthe others used decoration, but they were certainlyprimarily modelers of the human figure. Desiderio,Mino, and Benedetto seem, despite all their achieve-ments in modeling faces and bodies of cherubim andangels and recumbent men, primarily workers inarchitectural detail and ornamentation in marblecloths and hangings, leaves and flowers, shells anddesigns of dream fancy. They worked, too, almostexclusively in relief, while most of the others workedchiefly In the round. As to their relative standing among themselves,expert opinion seems to rank Desiderio first In pointof genius and execution. Benedetto da Maiano wasmost conspicuous perhaps as architect. Mino daFiesole was most prolific and consistent. But theywere all really much of a piece. If DcsiderlosMarzupplnl tomb In Santa Croce is finer than Ber-nardo Rosselllnls Bruini tomb in the same church,Desiderio has no such great architectural group tohis credit as has Rossellino In Faenza. If San. Photo. Alinari Detail of the ToxVib Monument of Carlo Marzuppini Desiderio da Settignano: Santa Croce The Hill-side Sculptors 189 Miniato above Florence, to the east, is distinguishedby Antonio Rossellinos masterpiece, the tomb ofCardinal James of Portugal, Fiesoles Duomoabove Florence, to the west, is equally distinguishedby Mino da Fiesoles tomb of Bishop Salutati. Ifthe figure reliefs of Benedetto da Maiano on thepulpit in Santa Croce approach near to ones idea ofperfect work of this kind, so also do those pitifulheadless ones of Benedetto da Rovezzano in the Bar-gello. It is, indeed, truly hard to say who was thegreater among them. And it is perhaps unnecessaryto attempt to say it at all. Desiderio da Settignano, born in 1428, was the sonof the stone-cutter named Bartolommeo di Francesco,usually called Ferro, who lived in the little hill-sidevillage which Desiderio did so much to make and a brother were br
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