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Mino also made the tomb for Pope Paul II., parts of which are preserved in the Grotte of S.Peter's.
At Rome he carved a tabernacle for S.Maria in Trastevere, and at Volterra a ciborium for the Baptistery--one of his most sympathetic productions.
The altars in the Baglioni Chapel of S.Pietro Cassinense at Perugia, in S.Ambrogio at Florence, and in the cathedral of Fiesole, and the pulpit in the Duomo at Prato, may be mentioned among his best works. [105] 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. [106] The wooden statue of the Magdalen in Santa Trinita at Florence shows Desiderio's approximation to the style of his master.
She is a careworn and ascetic saint, with the pathetic traces of great beauty in her emaciated face. [107] This bust is in the Palazzo Strozzi at Florence. [108] So Giovanni Santi, Raphael's father, described Desiderio da Settignano. [109] The following story is told about Benedetto's youth.
He made two large inlaid chests or _cassoni_, adorned with all the skill of a worker in tarsia, or wood-mosaic, and carried these with him to King Matthias Corvinus, of Hungary.
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