For the village near Livorno, see Sassetta, Tuscany

Stefano di Giovanni di Consolo, known as il Sassetta (1392 – 1450 or 1451) was an Italian painter.

He was born in Siena

Siena

Siena is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Siena.The historic centre of Siena has been declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site. It is one of the nation's most visited tourist attractions, with over 163,000 international arrivals in 2008...

, although there is also an hypothesis that he was born in Cortona

Cortona

Cortona is a town and comune in the province of Arezzo, in Tuscany, Italy. It is the main cultural and artistic center of the Val di Chiana after Arezzo.-History:...

. The first historical record of him was anyway in Siena in 1423. Sassetta was the apprentice of Paolo di Giovanni Fei

Paolo di Giovanni Fei

Paolo di Giovanni Fei was a painter of the Sienese school.He came to Siena from San Quirico, Castelvecchio, held public positions in Siena from 1369 and was first mentioned in the Sienese register of painters in 1389. His earliest signed and dated work is of 1381...

 or Benedetto di Bindo. He painted in the semi-archaic Sienese School

Sienese School

The Sienese School of painting flourished in Siena, Italy between the 13th and 15th centuries and for a time rivaled Florence, though it was more conservative, being inclined towards the decorative beauty and elegant grace of late Gothic art...

 style of painting. Francesco di Giorgio e di Lorenzo, better known as Vecchietta

Vecchietta

Francesco di Giorgio e di Lorenzo , known as Vecchietta or Lorenzo di Pietro, was an Italian Sienese School painter, sculptor, goldsmith and architect of the Renaissance...

, is said to have been his apprentice.

He died by pneumonia

Pneumonia

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 contracted while decorating the Assumption fresco in the Porta Romana of Siena. The work was finished by his pupil Sano di Pietro

Sano di Pietro

Sano di Pietro was an early Italian Renaissance painter and miniaturist from Siena.No works by Sano are known before 1443; he apprenticed under Sassetta and Giovanni di Paolo...

.

Selected works

• Meeting of Saint Antonio and Saint Paul (c. 1440), tempera on wood, National Gallery of Art
  National Gallery of Art
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  , Washington D.C., USA
• Vision of Saint Thomas of Aquino before the Cross, (1423), Pinacoteca Vaticana
• Saint Thomas inspired by the dove of the Holy Spirit, tempera on wood, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
  Budapest
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• Madonna of the Snows Altarpiece (c. 1430-1432), Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
  Florence
  Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
  
  
• A predella
  Predella
  A predella is the platform or step on which an altar stands . In painting, the predella is the painting or sculpture along the frame at the bottom of an altarpiece...
  
   of three works at the Detroit Institute of arts
• San Domenico da Cortona Polyptych (c. 1434), Diocesan Museum, Cortona
  Cortona
  Cortona is a town and comune in the province of Arezzo, in Tuscany, Italy. It is the main cultural and artistic center of the Val di Chiana after Arezzo.-History:...
  
  , Italy
• The Journey of the Magi (1435) Metropolitan Museum of Art
  Metropolitan Museum of Art
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  , New York
  New York City
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  , USA
• Saint Anthony the Hermit Tortured by Devils, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena
  Pinacoteca Nazionale (Siena)
  The Pinacoteca Nazionale is a national museum in Siena, Tuscany, Italy. Inaugurated in 1932, it houses especially late medieval and Renaissance paintings from Italian artists. It is housed in the Brigidi and Buonsignori palaces in the city's center: the former, built in the 14th century, it is...
  
  
• Virgin and Child Adored by Six Angels (1437–44), Louvre Museum, Paris, France
• Death of the Heretic on the Bonfire (1423), Melbourne, Australia
• Last Supper (1423), Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena
• Ecstasy of Saint Francis (1437–44), Villa i Tatti, Settignano
  Settignano
  Settignano is a picturesque frazione ranged on a hillside northeast of Florence, Italy, with spectacular views that have attracted American expatriates for generations...
  
  , Italy
• The Miracle of the Eucharist
• Saint Francis receiving stigmata (1437–44), National Gallery, London, United Kingdom
• Mystic Marriage of St. Francis (c. 1450), Musée Condé, Chantilly
  Chantilly, Oise
  Chantilly is a small city in northern France. It is designated municipally as a commune in the department of Oise.It is in the metropolitan area of Paris 38.4 km...
  
  , France

Sources

• Luciano Bellosi, Sassetta e i pittori toscani tra XIII e XV secolo, a cura di Luciano Bellosi e Alessandro Angelini, Studio per edizioni scelte, Firenze 1986
• B. Berenson, Sassetta, Firenze 1946
• Enzo Carli, Sassetta's Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece, in: Burlington Magazine 43, 1951, ss. 145
• Enzo Carli, Sassetta e il «Maestro dell'Osservanza», Milano 1957
• Enzo Carli, I Pittori senesi, Milano 1971
• J. Pope-Henessy, Sassetta, Londra 1939
• J. Pope-Hennessy, Rethinking Sassetta, in: Burlington Magazine 98, 1956, ss. 364
• Federico Zeri, Towards a Reconstruction of Sassetta's Arte della Lana Triptych, in Burlington Magazine 98, 1956, ss. 36

External links

• Sassetta at Panopticon Virtual Art Gallery