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All the work of Antonio Rossellino, Matteo Civitali, Mino da Fiesole, and Benedetto da Majano, is distinguished by sweetness, grace, tranquillity, and self-restraint as though these artists had voluntarily imposed limits on their genius, refusing to trespass beyond a traced circle of religious subjects, or to aim at effects unrealisable by purity of outline, suavity of expression, delicacy of feeling, and urbanity of style.
Matteo Civitale, Benedetto da Majano, Mino da Fiesole, Luca della Robbia, Donatello, Jacopo della Quercia, Lo Scalza, Omodeo, and the Sansovini, not to mention less illustrious sculptors, filled the churches of Italy with this elaborate stone-work.
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 Rovezzano, you may see the sculptors at work in an open bottega by the roadside, the rough-hewn marble standing here and there in many sizes and shapes, the chips and fragments strewing the highway.
Niccola Pisano Obscurity of the Sources for a History of Early Italian Sculpture Vasari's Legend of Pisano Deposition from the Cross at Lucca Study of Nature and the Antique Sarcophagus at Pisa Pisan Pulpit Niccola's School Giovanni Pisano Pulpit in S. Andrea at Pistoja Fragments of his work at Pisa Tomb of Benedict XI. at Perugia Bas-reliefs at Orvieto Andrea Pisano Relation of Sculpture to Painting Giotto Subordination of Sculpture to Architecture in Italy Pisano's Influence in Venice Balduccio of Pisa Orcagna The Tabernacle of Orsammichele The Gates of the Florentine Baptistery Competition of Ghiberti, Brunelleschi, and Della Quercia Comparison of Ghiberti's and Brunelleschi's Trial-pieces Comparison of Ghiberti and Della Quercia The Bas-reliefs of S. Petronio Ghiberti's Education His Pictorial Style in Bas-relief His Feeling for the Antique Donatello Early Visit to Rome Christian Subjects Realistic Treatment S. George and David Judith Equestrian Statue of Gattamelata Influence of Donatello's Naturalism Andrea Verocchio His David Statue of Colleoni Alessandro Leopardi Lionardo's Statue of Francesco Sforza The Pollajuoli Tombs of Sixtus IV. and Innocent VIII. Luca della Robbia His Treatment of Glazed Earthenware Agostino di Duccio The Oratory of S. Bernardino at Perugia Antonio Rossellino Matteo Civitali Mino da Fiesole Benedetto da Majano Characteristics and Masterpieces of this Group Sepulchral Monuments Andrea Contucci's Tombs in S. Maria del Popolo Desiderio da Settignano Sculpture in S. Francesco at Rimini Venetian Sculpture Verona Guido Mazzoni of Modena Certosa of Pavia Colleoni Chapel at Bergamo Sansovino at Venice Pagan Sculpture Michael Angelo's Scholars Baccio Bandinelli Bartolommeo Ammanati Cellini Gian Bologna Survey of the History of Renaissance Sculpture.
She was resting after her exertions in the dance, and reclined languidly in a low velvet chair, chatting gayly with that very Prince de Majano whose honeyed compliments had partly spoiled the budding sweet nature of the youngest girl in the room. Apologizing for interrupting the conversation, I lowered my voice to a persuasive tenderness as I addressed her.
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