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

Portrait of Marietta Strozzi

c. 1460
Marble, height 52,5 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

The sitter of this sculpture is probably Marietta Strozzi, daughter of Lorenzo Strozzi who died in 1451. She was one of the most beautiful young girl in the patrician circles of Florence.