Close Looking: Desiderio da Settignano’s Bust of a Young Boy

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Here Senior Curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Anne-Lise Desmas highlights the mastery of Italian artist Desiderio da Settignano’s marble sculpting in Bust of a Young Boy (about 1460-1464). She leads you to the masterful contours, liveliness, delicacy, and silky softness rendered in marble, a hard medium to manipulate so gracefully.
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Very interesting and educational. I would like to see more of this kind of in depth explanation of an artist’s work.