Portrait of local baker Doug Rae by Raphael Sassi.  One of the special things Sassi Italy Tours can do that I don’t think anyone else can offer as well as we can:  a chance to study the masters of the Renaissance under the tutelage of a modern master.  Raphael Sassi is a career professional portrait artist and the winner of more awards than I can begin to mention here.  His attention to light and emotionally accurate rendering of his subjects is hard to beat, and Sassi Italy Tours can naturally book him to accompany you on an artist’s tour of Rome and Florence, where you’ll study the works of the masters with his help and oversight, and learn two dimensional rendering of various subjects with a classical touch.