SASSETTA

One of the Greatest Painters Of All Time

1394 - 1450

Italian International GothicByzantine Style,  Architect and Painter of the Sienese School

Artistically and stylistically influenced by the following painters; Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Pietro Lorenzetti, Duccio di Buoninsegna  and  Coppo di Marcovaldo

Medium - Tempera on wood

Cause of Death -   Bloodletting gone awry, in Medieval times bloodletting was thought  to restore the balance of fluids in the body during illness.

 
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Journey of the Magi, c.1435
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The Blessed Ranieri Rasini Delivering...
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Madonna with a Rose Bush
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Sassetta, born Stefano di Giovanni, was perhaps the greatest of the early 15th century Sienese painters. He dabbled in the St. Francis's cult of poverty and occasionally cast off all his worldly possessions and took to the road, creating small portraits for a bowel of porridge or a crust of moldy bread. Like St. Francis,  Sassetta believed that in order to free the spirit he must shed his earthly possessions. Fortunately his enormous talent and love of painting always returned him to the studio after just a few weeks of deprivation. When he was not consumed with religious fervor he was known as a bit of a mischief maker, with a lurid sense of humor and a tolerable eccentricity.

 Sassetta had a fantastic and lively imagination, which in some of his works expresses itself in all manner of bizarre Biblical scenarios and divine visions. His paintings combine a lyrical narrative quality with awe-inspiring fanatical obsession.  It is Sassetta' s zeal for holy figures and the passion he expresses that makes his paintings still to appear so stunningly effective.  Sassetta possessed the wonderful ability to convey atmosphere and mood. His devotion to St. Francis,  St. Anthony and other divine figurers show clearly in his art. He is now considered to be one of the most brilliant artistic geniuses of all time.

His repertoire included emotionally charged representations of  the holy figures of the Christian faith--ChristSaints, The CrossVirgin Mary Chalice, Keys, The Anchor, Wheat The Good Shepherd, The Apostles, Animals, Fish, Angels, Birds, Insects  and Satan.

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