\paperw3795 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 \b SASSETTA, Stefano di Giovanni di Consolo called\par
\b0 Italian painter\par
(Cortona? c\i . \i0 1400 û Siena 1450)\par
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His
background is unknown, but can be linked to the great sources of early fourteenth-century Sienese painting, from \b \cf4 \ATXht1044 Simone Martini \b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 to \b \cf4 \ATXht1042 Pietro \b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 and \b \cf4 \ATXht1037 Ambrogio Lorenzetti
\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , updated by his contact with International Gothic and the new naturalism and perspective of Florentine painting. In fact he was the earliest and most attentive interpreter in Siena of the work of painters like Domenico Veneziano, \b \cf4 \ATXht1097 Fra Angelico\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 and Paolo Uccello, who at that time were reworking MasaccioÆs perspective in a luministic and chromatic key.
