DESIDERIO DA SETTIGNANO
(b. ca. 1428, Settignano, d. 1464, Firenze)

Virgin and Child

c. 1450
Marble, 61 x 36 cm
Galleria Sabauda, Turin

Desiderio da Settignano employed the "schiacciato" relief (flattened relief) approach that Donatello invented, but his language was more refined and less connected with classical antiquity.