Date : near 1487
Dimensions : 64 cm x 84 cm
Material : Tempera on canvas
Acquisition : The Jules Bache Collection (1949)
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Italian Painting
Painting (Portrait de groupe)
Area related
Florence (Italy)
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Francesco Sassetti (1421-1490) worked in the Medici banks in Avignon, Geneva and Lyons. He was an advisor to Piero de'Medici and Lorenzo the Magnificent. Both of Sassetti's sons were named Teodoro, with the younger one born in 1479, the year of the elder's death. Ghirlandaio has set father and son against a background showing an oratory built by Sassetti in Geneva. The same building recurs in the frescoes painted by Ghirlandaio for Sassetti in Santa Trinita, Florence, between 1483 and 1486. The head and figure of Sassetti in this portrait are much repainted.
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