“Stories of St. Francis” by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1486
Cappella Sassetti (Sassetti Chapel)
Basilica of Santa Trinita
Piazza Santa Trinita
Florence, December 2022
“The Sassetti Chapel (Cappella Sassetti) is a chapel in the basilica of Santa Trinita in Florence, Italy. It is especially notable for its frescoes of the ‘Stories of St. Francis’, considered Domenico Ghirlandaio's masterwork. Francesco Sassetti (1421–1490) was a rich banker and a member of the Medici entourage, for which he directed the Medici Bank. In 1478 he acquired the chapel of St. Francis in Santa Trinita, after his proposal to add a decoration portraying the saint had been rejected by the Dominicans of Santa Maria Novella, where his family had had a chapel (later also frescoed by Ghirlandaio, and now known as the Tornabuoni Chapel) since the 14th century.” (Sassetti Chapel, Wikipedia)
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