Stefano di Giovanni Sassetta

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Sassetta: "Mary and the baby Jesus, surrounded by six angels"
( 15th century , Paris, Louvre )

The Italian painter Il Sassetta , actually Stefano di Giovanni di Consolo da Cortona (* around 1400 probably in Siena ; † April 1, 1450 in Siena) was one of the most important artists of the School of Siena in the first half of the 15th century . It belongs to the late Gothic style known as International Gothic , which developed from book illumination .

The first mention of the artist, who was probably born in Siena, according to another hypothesis in Cortona , comes from Siena in the year 1423. It is assumed that he was a student of Paolo di Giovanni Fei (* around 1345; † around 1411).

Sassetta devoted herself exclusively to religious subjects and developed a very personal style of International Gothic. He was looking for the perspective that had already been tried out in the early Renaissance in Florence , but did not succeed in mastering it completely. Characteristic are flowing lines and festive, bright red and purple tones.

Factory selection

  • 1423–1426: " Winged altar of the Palazzo dell'Arte della Lana" in Florence (pentaptych, dismantled and divided; the fragment "Last Supper" is in the Florence art gallery)
  • around 1430: "Adoration of the Magi" (Siena, Chigi Saracini Collection)
  • 1430–1432: "Madonna della Neve" in the cathedral of Siena (now in Florence, Contini-Bonacossi collection)
  • 1437–1444: "Winged altar of St. Francis", also called "de Borgo San Sepolcro" (dismantled and divided, the fragments are now in London in the National Gallery , in Chantilly in the Musée Condé and in Settignano in the Berenson Foundation ).
  • "Madonna with the Cherries" (Grosseto, Museo Archeologico e d'Arte della Maremma )
  • Altarpiece in the cathedral of Pienza

literature

  • Bernard Berenson : Sassetta. Un pittore senese della leggenda francescana. Electa, Florence 1946, (In French: Sassetta. Une peintre siennois de la légende franciscaine. Michel, Paris 1948).
  • Enzo Carli: Sassetta's Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece. In: The Burlington Magazine . Vol. 93, No. 578, 1951, pp. 145-152, JSTOR 870453 .
  • Enzo Carli : Sassetta et il Maestro dell'Osservanze. A. Martello, Milan 1957.
  • John Pope-Hennessy: Sassetta. Chatto & Windus, London 1939.
  • John Pope-Hennessy, "Rethinking Sassetta. In: The Burlington Magazine. Vol. 98, No. 643, 1956, pp. 364-370, JSTOR 872050 .
  • Federico Zeri: Towards a Reconstruction of Sassetta's Arte della Lana Triptych. In: The Burlington Magazine. Vol. 98, No. 635, 1956, pp. 36-41, JSTOR 871796 .

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SURNAME Stefano di Giovanni Sassetta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sassetta; Il Sassetta; Stefano di Giovanni; Stefano di Giovanni di Consolo da Cortona
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1400
PLACE OF BIRTH Siena or Cortona
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1450
Place of death Siena