Word: settignano
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...Italian villa opulently rising from its verdant grounds is enough to stir the most prosaic of imaginations. The English poets eulogized the effect a long time ago and the sensation has not worn thin. But at Settignano, a few miles from the riches of Florence, there is to be found a villa of very special spiritual proportions. It is I Tatti, the home of Bernard Berenson...
Welcomed by the Detroit Institute of Arts was Mrs. Edsel Ford's $100,000 low relief in stone from her late husband's collection.* It was 15th Century Sculptor Desiderio da Settignano's Profile Portrait of a Young Woman, who managed to look both wistful and stately...
...expatriate critic of the arts whose accomplishments (he was one of the first to recognize Matisse and Picasso) were overshadowed by the literary fireworks set off by sister Gertrude, with whom he had not been on speaking terms from 1920, until her death last year; of cancer; at Settignano, Italy...
...STEIN Settignano, Italy...
...Exhibition consists of photographs of Italian Renaissance sculpture taken by Professor Kennedy in 1925-26 in connection with his study of Desiderio da Settignano, and of classical sculptures, some photographed several years earlier. Among the Italian sculptures are details of the Tomb of Carlo Marsuppini and the Tomb as a whole, also several Portrait busts. Among the photographs of Classical sculpture are ones of the Erectheum made for the book on this temple soon to be published by the American School at Athens, and many examples of Archaic sculpture including the Charioteer at Delphi...