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Sassetta
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Sassetta ( Stefano di Giovanni) (active 1423; d. 1450). Sienese painter; the name Sassetta was evidently first used in the 18th century and is of unknown origin, but it is now the accepted designation. His work continues Sienese tradition in its beautiful colouring and elegant line, but he was also influenced by the
International Gothic style and by contemporary Florentine developments, combining them into a highly personal manner expressive of his mystical imagination. With
Giovanni di Paolo he ranks as the outstanding Sienese painter of the 15th century. His most important work was the St Francis altarpiece (1437–44) painted for the church of S. Francesco at Borgo San Sepolcro and now dispersed. The central panel,
St Francis in Ecstasy (Berenson Coll., Florence), has a monumental dignity that must have impressed
Piero della Francesca (a native of San Sepolcro), and some of the other panels (seven are in the National Gallery, London) show him at his most lyrical. Sassetta's reputation did not long survive his death and he was not rediscovered until the early 20th century.
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Sienese painting at the London National Gallery.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 12/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...brought in the supreme Sienese master, Sassetta, but paid scant attention to his near...and continues to 1530, which excludes Sassetta and avoids any contention about how many...from the life of St Anthony of Egypt are Sassetta's own work. In compensation, the...
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HARVARD'S COUNTRY PLACE, AND THE MAN WHO KEEPS IT
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/28/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...example is part of an altar by the 15th-century Sienese master Sassetta: The other parts are in the Louvre, London's National Gallery...praise on the painter, Berenson increased the value of his own Sassetta. A scholar's heaven I Tatti was built in the age of Renaissance...
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Blondes to 3,200gns for bull at Bristol.
Magazine article from: Farmers Guardian; 4/29/2005; 446 words
; ...2,500gns was D.G. Knight, North Wraxall, Wiltshire, and Doncombe Uzi. This Doncombe Rangatira son out of Doncombe Sassetta in November 2003 was bought by R.J. Lloyd Campion, Fernhurst, Surrey. At 2,100gns was Fronfedw Urddasol from R.G...
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SIENESE PAINTING
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 12/13/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...landscape - put to the service of the state. The development of Sienese art is tracked through the wondrous revelations of Sassetta and Giovanni di Paolo up until Francesco di Giorgio's bronze bas relief 'Lamentation' of 1476. It is a lucidly written...
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art; The Road To Impressionism.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 5/15/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...tapestries, indifferent furniture and more than a thousand paintings - by Tiepolo, Goya, El Greco, Boucher, Giordano, Sassetta, Oudry and all sorts of rarities and obscurities. It is from among these last, the obscurities, that the Wallace Collection...
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Inside Charles and Camilla's [pounds sterling]1.2m taste of Chiantishire.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 10/10/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...city officials he is definitely coming back and wants to see more of the area." There is one factor that just might put the prince off - his former sisterinlaw the Duchess of York has a property at Sassetta, less than 30 minutes away.
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Chiantishire could be just a click away; PROPERTY MAIL.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 10/11/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...pound sterling1 million and the Duchess of York, who has put hundreds of thousands of pounds into redeveloping a farmhouse in Sassetta. But reports that Prince Charles is about to buy a villa there have turned out to be untrue. The property auction next month...
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Local Listings for the District of Columbia
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/9/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Reserve Board, 20th and C streets NW. Free. 202-452-3778. BARBARA ALLEN -- Through Nov. 29. Oil paintings in homage to Sassetta, a 15th-century Sienese artist. Marsha Mateyka Gallery, 2012 R St. NW. Free. 202-328-0088. RECENT ACQUISITIONS...
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Details Competition
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 5/29/2005; ; 311 words
; ...section of an altarpiece in St Francis and the Poor Knight, and Francis's Vision (c1444), by the Sienese artist known as Sassetta (real name Stefano di Giovanni). It's a double image, divided left and right, in which St Francis gives his cloak to...
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City: The world's oldest bank goes public The Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena is living history as well as central to the prosperity of its region of Italy, says David Brierley
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 6/27/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...tracing the artistic development in this remarkable town. It includes works by Pietro Lorenzetti, Andrea di Bartolo and Sassetta and has regularly been enhanced by significant local donations, including the Chigi Saracini collection, housed in a palazzo...
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Sassetta
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Sassetta The Italian artist Sassetta (ca. 1400-1450), the greatest painter of the Sienese school...The place and date of birth of Stefano di Giovanni, known as Sassetta are unknown. He may have been born in Cortona, the home of his...
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Vecchietta
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...thereafter in documents relating to him, but its origin is unknown. On stylistic grounds he is assumed to have been a pupil of Sassetta , but he also came under the influence of Florentine art and his large-scale paintings have a monumentality rare in Siena...
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Pope-Hennessy, Sir John
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...Baroque Sculpture (1963), an edition of Cellini's Autobiography (1949), and monographs on Giovanni di Paolo (1937), Sassetta (1939), Uccello (1950; rev. 1972), Fra Angelico (1952; rev. 1974), Raphael (1970), Luca della Robbia (1980...
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Sano di Pietro
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...devotional pictures, a large number of which survive. The best are of high quality, but he made extensive use of assistants and his output is repetitive and uneven. His style was strongly influenced by Sassetta , who probably taught him.
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Giovanni di Paolo
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...known dates from 1426). He may have been taught by Taddeo di Bartolo and was influenced notably by Gentile da Fabriano and Sassetta , but his style is highly personal and engaging, with rather whimsical figures inhabiting strange landscapes. After centuries...
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