Stefano di Giovanni

:"For the village near Livorno, see Sassetta (LI)"

Stefano di Giovanni, known as il Sassetta, (Siena 1392 – 1450 or 1451) was an Italian painter. He was born in Siena, although there is also an hypothesis that he was born in Cortona. However, the first historical record of him was in Siena in 1423. Di Giovanni was probably the apprentice of Paolo di Giovanni Fei although it is also thought that he may have studied under Benedetto di Bindo. He painted in the semi-archaic Sienese School style of painting. Francesco di Giorgio e di Lorenzo, better known as Vecchietta, is said to have been his apprentice.

Anthology of Works

*"Meeting of Saint Antonio and Saint Paul /L'incontro di Sant'Antonio e San Paolo", circa 1440, tempera on wood, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.) [http://www.wga.hu/html/s/sassetta/meeting.html]
*"Vision of Saint Thomas of Aquino before the Cross / Visione di San Thomas d'Aquino", (1423, Pinacoteca Vaticana) [http://www.wga.hu/html/s/sassetta/6thomas.html]
*"Saint Thomas inspired by the dove of the Holy Spirit" / "San Tommaso ispirato dalla colomba dello Spirito Santo", tempera on wood, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest) [http://www.wga.hu/html/s/sassetta/50thomas.html]
*"The Madonna of the Snows / La Madonna della neve", 1432, Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
*A predella of three works at the Detroit Institute of arts [http://www.dia.org/asp/search/ExecuteSearch.asp?artist=Sassetta] (See [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,936122,00.html?promoid=googlep here] for the history of their acquisition)
*"The Journey of the Magi", (1435, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) [http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/Christmas_Story/magi_lg.html]
*"Saint Anthony the Hermit Tortured by Devils", (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena) [http://www.wga.hu/html/s/sassetta/1anthony.html]
*"Virgin and Child Adored by Six Angels", (1437-44, Musée du Louvre, Paris) [http://www.wga.hu/html/s/sassetta/virgin_c.html]
*"Death of the Heretic on the Bonfire", (1423, Melbourne, Australia) [http://www.wga.hu/html/s/sassetta/2heretic.html]
*Last Supper (1423, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena) [http://www.wga.hu/html/s/sassetta/3lastsup.html
*"Ecstasy of Saint Francis", (1437-44, Villa i Tatti, Settignano) [http://www.wga.hu/html/s/sassetta/stigmat.html]
*"The Miracle of the Eucharist", [http://www.wga.hu/html/s/sassetta/4euchari.html]
*"Saint Francis receiving stigmata", (1437-44, National Gallery, London) [http://www.wga.hu/html/s/sassetta/stigmati.html]

References

*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, 145 ss.
*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, 364 ss.
*Federico Zeri, "Towards a Reconstruction of Sassetta's Arte della Lana Triptych", in Burlington Magazine 98, 1956, 36 ss.

External links

* [http://www.aiwaz.net/panopticon/sassetta/gc345 Sassetta at Panopticon Virtual Art Gallery]