Settignano (ita)

Settignano

Settignano ranks 3,218th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Petropavl, Rotenburg an der Fulda, and Hirado, Nagasaki. Memorable people born in Settignano include Bartolomeo Ammannati, Bernardo Rossellino, and Antonio Rossellino. Settignano has been the birth place of many sculptors and architects. Settignano is located in Italy.

Settignano is a frazione on a hillside northeast of Florence, Italy. The little borgo of Settignano carries a familiar name for having produced three sculptors of the Florentine Renaissance, Desiderio da Settignano and the Gamberini brothers, better known as Bernardo Rossellino and Antonio Rossellino. The young Michelangelo lived with a sculptor and his wife in Settignano—in a farmhouse that is now the "Villa Michelangelo"— where his father owned a marble quarry. In 1511 another sculptor was born there, Bartolomeo Ammannati. The marble quarries of Settignano produced this series of sculptors. Read more on Wikipedia