Marco Sassone

Marco Sassone, OMRI (born 1942, in Campi Bisenzio) is an American-Italian painter. He moved to Florence in 1954, where his raptness in painting began. He studied architectural drafting at the Istituto Galileo Galilei, and sold his first works, watercolor sketches, to tourists.

Sassone studied like painter Silvio Loffredo, who had been a pupil of the Austrian performer Oskar Kokoschka. These artists formed Sassone's in advance influences.

In November 1967, after the destructive flood that had devastated Florence, Sassone traveled to the United States where he approved in California. He moved to Laguna Beach, where he exhibited at the annual Festival of the Arts.

In the prematurely 1980s Sassone moved his studio to San Francisco, where he encountered homelessness. He spent several years sketching the homeless people he met while observing life on the streets. This action formed the exhibition "Home upon the Streets" which opened in 1994, at the Museo ItaloAmericano in San Francisco, and traveled to Los Angeles and Florence, Italy.

In 1982 Marco Sassone was Knighted by president of Italy, Sandro Pertini, into the Order to the Merit of the Italian Republic and time-honored a gold medal honor from the Italian Academy of Arts, Literature and Science.

In 2005, Marco Sassone relocated to Toronto, Ontario, Canada.