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Sassetta

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[sahs-set-tah] / sɑsˈsɛt tɑ /

noun

  1. Stefano di Giovanni 1392?–1450, Italian painter.


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We started out in the Met looking in silence at “The Journey of the Magi” by Sassetta, the 15th-century Sienese painter.

From New York Times Aug. 27, 2020

And the walls around them were lined with Renaissance paintings: Sassetta, Bernardo Daddi, Botticelli and Piero di Cosimo.

From New York Times Jun. 5, 2013

They achieve a balance of abstraction and representation — and a fusion of figure, architecture and landscape — equaled in European painting only by Sienese masters like Sassetta.

From New York Times Sep. 29, 2011

Berenson got the Sassetta for less than $500.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not even the enthusiasms of Bernard Berenson and his heir Pope-Hennessy could give a Sienese artist like Sassetta the popularity of a Florentine like Botticelli.

From Time Magazine Archive

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