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Desiderio da Settignano
[Italian Early Renaissance Painter and Sculptor, ca.1430-1464]
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Desiderio da Settignano Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Desiderio da Settignano at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Coat of Arms of the Minerbetti Family, ca.1457
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Studies of the Virgin and Child, 1455
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
3 sculptures
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Info about a 2007 exhibition: "Desiderio da Settignano: Sculptor of Renaissance Florence"
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
Virgin and Child
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
7 works by or related to the artist
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Philadelphia Museum of Art
State Museums of Berlin
Marietta Strozzi, ca.1460
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
The Virgin and Child
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Desiderio da Settignano at The Art Renewal Center
Desiderio da Settignano in the Web Gallery of Art 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (mostly in Italian)
Boston College Fine Arts Department
California State University WorldImages Database
Digital Images — Photography by Ron Reznick
The Madonna and Child
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Desiderio da Settignano 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists
Biography of the artist. Detailed, but Vasari's anecdotes are sometimes inaccurate.
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