Marco Sassone, OMRI (born 1942 in Campi Bisenzio) is an American-Italian painter. He moved to Florence in 1954, where his interest in painting began. He studied architectural drafting at the Istituto Galileo Galilei, and sold his first works, watercolor sketches, to tourists.Sassone studied with painter Silvio Loffredo, who had been a pupil of the Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka.