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Updated: May 4, 2025
Besides Civitali's altar of S. Regulus, and the tomb of Pietro da Noceto already mentioned, Bernardo Rossellino's monument to Lionardo Bruni, and Desiderio's monument to Carlo Marsuppini in S. Croce at Florence, may be cited as eminent examples of Tuscan sepulchres.
An historic piazza Marble façades Florence's Westminster Abbey Galileo's ancestor and Ruskin Benedetto's pulpit Michelangelo's tomb A fond lady Donatello's Annunciation Giotto's frescoes S. Francis Donatello magnanimous The gifted Alberti Desiderio's great tomb The sacristy The Medici chapel The Pazzi chapel Old Jacopo desecrated A Restoration. The piazza S. Croce now belongs to children.
The severity of the façade is delightfully softened and enlivened by a frieze of mischievous cherubs' heads, the joint work of Donatello and Desiderio. Donatello's are on the right, and one sees at once that his was the bolder, stronger hand. Look particularly at the laughing head fourth from the right. But that one of Desiderio's over the middle columns has much charm and power.
Mino, it must be remembered, was Desiderio's pupil, as Desiderio was Donatello's. Never can a few strokes of the chisel have had so transforming an effect. There is some doubt as to whether the boys are just where the sculptor set them, and the upper ones with their garlands are thought to be a later addition; but we are never likely to know.
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