In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . ellino. And still other Settignanesestone-carvers have come to distinction, if not to thewide fame of Desiderio and the Rossellini. Indeed,the village has always been the home of stone-cuttersand carvers. Modest quarriers and stone-cuttersat first, says Carocci in his exhaustive account of theenvirons of Florence, the Settignanese felt quicklythe influence of the arts that in Florence were passingfrom triumph to triumph. They dedicated themselvesto this art, and soon built up here a true and dis-tinctive school of stone-carving
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . ellino. And still other Settignanesestone-carvers have come to distinction, if not to thewide fame of Desiderio and the Rossellini. Indeed,the village has always been the home of stone-cuttersand carvers. Modest quarriers and stone-cuttersat first, says Carocci in his exhaustive account of theenvirons of Florence, the Settignanese felt quicklythe influence of the arts that in Florence were passingfrom triumph to triumph. They dedicated themselvesto this art, and soon built up here a true and dis-tinctive school of stone-carving from which issued ingreat numbers the most exquisite works of ornamenta-tion and composition. The art of the Settignanesemasters had a character peculiarly its own and local,above all in connection with its decorative character, 66 Our Village in which it preserved constantly a type of spontaneousingenuity associated with the high skill and goodtaste of the workers. Notable examples of the work of these Settigna-nese sculptors are the Marzuppini tomb in Santa 1. A most useful village fountain, where all day long women andchildren fill their straw-covered fiaschi and exchange thegossip of the day. Croce, by Desiderio, the Bruini tomb in the samechurch by Bernardo Rossellino, and the Portogallotomb in San MIniato by Antonio Rossellino. Immediately on descending In Settignano from theFlorence tram one finds oneself on the edge of thePiazza Niccolo Tommaseo and nearly in face ofthe church of Santa Maria a Settignano. In the mid-dle of the piazza is a most useful old village foun-tain, where all day long women and children fill theirstraw-covered fiaschi and exchange the gossip of the Our Village 67 day. This Niccolo Tommaseo, whose statue by Leo-pold Costali adorns the piazza, was a patriot andscholar who spent the last years of his life in the vil-lage. Within the church are several interestingworks of art: a tavola representing the Resurrectionby Manzuoli da S. Friano; a tela fig
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