Italian Early Renaissance Painter, 1420-1497
Italian Renaissance painter. Early in his career he assisted Lorenzo Ghiberti on the east doors of the Baptistery in Florence and Fra Angelico on frescoes in Florence, Rome, and Orvieto. His reputation today rests on the breathtaking fresco cycle The Journey of the Magi (1459 ?C 61) in the chapel of Florence's Medici-Riccardi Palace. His work as a whole was undistinguished, however. He painted several altarpieces and a series of 25 frescoes of Old Testament scenes, now badly damaged, for the Camposanto in Pisa (1468 ?C 84).
The Procession of the Magi
The Procession of the Magi
Painting ID:: 26709
SASSETTA Italian Early Renaissance Painter, ca.1390-1450 The Procession of the Magi mk86
c.1432-1436
Tempera on wood
21.3x29cm
New York,The Metropolitan Museum of Art