Stefano di Giovanni Sassetta
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 .
Web links
- Works by Stefano di Giovanni Sassetta at Zeno.org .
- Sassetta Online , ArtCyclopedia
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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 |