Sassetta biography artist

Mature Works

Between 1430 and 1433 Sassetta, like Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-1319) before him, executed the great altarpiece for Siena Cathedral, dedicated to the Madonna of the Snows (Pitti Palazzo, Florence).

His art was becoming increasingly subtle, an original synthesis of the strict rules of perspective established by Giotto and the later Florentine school, and the poetic unreality of a guileless vision.

Sassetta biography artist

The predella, which depicts the History of the Founding of S. Maria Maggiore in Rome, is an especially fine example of Sassetta's art, where the light of the new age opens up the concentric heavens of medieval cosmology.

From this time on there was no painter in Siena who did not owe something to Sassetta who, for his part, followed with interest the cultural progress of his epoch and that of Florence in particular. If the central motif of The Virgin and the Angels in the polyptych of the Church of S.

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