Sassetta, the subtle genius from Siena, revolutionized Italian
painting with an altarpiece for the small Tuscan town of Borgo San
Sepolcro in 1437 1444. Originally standing some six yards high,
double-sided, with a splendid gilt frame over the main altar of the
local Franciscan church, it was the Rolls Royce of early
Renaissance painting. But its myriad figures and scenes tempted the
collectors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and today its
disassembled panels can be found in twelve museums throughout
Europe and the United States.
To produce this landmark volume, experts in art and general
history, painting technique and conservation, woodworking,
architecture, and liturgy have joined forces across the boundaries
of eight different nations. A model of collaboration, it opens new
windows onto the creative process of the artist as he confronted a
late-medieval church at a crossroad of cultures, the
miracle-working body of a holy man, and a community of Franciscan
friars breathing the exhilarating air of reform. To confront such
challenges, Sassetta raised the most spiritual school of early
Italian art, the Sienese, to a higher level of understanding,
grace, and splendor.
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