Word: settignano
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...sculptors) as of an extreme responsiveness and delicacy, an adoring pursuit of the nuance, which coexists with his fondness for declamation. He had no embarrassment, of course, in quoting his quattrocento idols: that was the natural use of a heritage. He took from Pisanello, Laurana, Cellini and Desiderio da Settignano; the pose of Farragut is Donatello's St. George without a shield. Still, any academic hack can redo a prototype; Saint-Gaudens' peculiar gift was to shadow these massive and well-known shapes with the tiny subliminal events of a dreaming hand. In 1880 he could give Dr. Henry Shiff...
...woman, life-size and carved in painted wood) does not match the intensity of his drawing or painting, perhaps because in bronze the pictorial illusions are too literal and their mystery drains away. Too often his work seems like a nostalgic recapitulation of Italian quattrocento sculpture, Desiderio da Settignano in particular. But of his power over the flat surface, there is no doubt. What we see there, in midcareer and at the height of his powers, is the greatest realist artist alive...
...University is heir to the estate and a major part of the personal belongings of the late Bernard Berenson '87, the CRIMSON learned yesterday. Berenson, renowned art critic, died yesterday morning at the age of 94 in his villa at Settignano, Italy, after a long illness...
Berenson's sharp eye for a genuine masterpiece served him well as he built up the large art collection that now fills his 40-room Settignano mansion. The contents of this villa, most of which have been willed to Harvard, include an extensive library of about 80,000 volumes on art, religion, and history as well as the art collection...
...Once at Settignano, a letter of invitation offering a glimpse at the phenomenon of I Tatti, "if it amuses you," was presented, and the gates swung open upon the heart and soul of Bernard Berenson...