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Burning of a Heretic
by Sassetta
StyleRenaissance
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Sassetta completed this scene of a heretic being burned at the stake. The medieval punishment is depicted with the flat space and gold ground typical of early Italian painting. Religious authority enforces orthodoxy through fire.
Sassetta worked in Siena during the early Renaissance, maintaining Gothic traditions while absorbing new ideas. This work is held at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.
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About Burning of a Heretic
Sassetta was a 15th-century Sienese painter known for religious narratives You can see it at National Gallery of Victoria. Sassetta painted this scene of a heretic being burned at the stake.
You can see it at National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. Sassetta created it. Sassetta painted this scene of a heretic being burned at the stake.
Sassetta was a 15th-century Sienese painter who blended medieval gold-ground traditions with emerging Renaissance naturalism. His narrative panels tell religious stories with vivid, almost fairy-tale-like quality.
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