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Duccio di Buoninsegna (UK: / ˈ d uː tʃ i oʊ / DOO-chee-oh, [1] Italian: [ˈduttʃo di ˌbwɔninˈseɲɲa]; c. 1255–1260 – c. 1318–1319), commonly known as just Duccio, was an Italian painter active in Siena, Tuscany, in the late 13th and early 14th century. He was hired throughout his life to complete many important works in ...
The painting was installed in the cathedral on 9 June 1311 after a procession of the work in a loop around the city. One person who witnessed this event wrote: And on that day when it was brought into the cathedral, all workshops remained closed, and the bishop commanded a great host of devoted priests and monks to file past in solemn procession.
The most famous example of the Maestà is the Maestà with Twenty Angels and Nineteen Saints, an altarpiece comprising many individual paintings commissioned by the city of Siena in 1308 from the artist Duccio di Buoninsegna. The painting was installed in the city's cathedral on June 9, 1311.
Simone Martini, Annunciation with St. Margaret and St. Ansanus, 1333. The Sienese school of painting flourished in Siena, Italy, between the 13th and 15th centuries.Its most important artists include Duccio, whose work shows Byzantine influence, his pupil Simone Martini, the brothers Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti and Domenico and Taddeo di Bartolo, Sassetta, and Matteo di Giovanni.
100 great paintings from Duccio to Picasso is a selection of European paintings in the National Gallery, London, from the 14th to the 20th century. They were selected by curator Dillian Gordon for a National Gallery book in 1981.
The Rucellai Madonna is the earlier of the two works by Duccio for which there is written documentation (the other is the Maestà of 1308–11). The altarpiece was commissioned by the Compagnia dei Laudesi, a lay confraternity devoted to the Virgin, to decorate the chapel they occupied in the transept of the newly built Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence.
The Duccio was shown at few exhibitions in 1930 and 1935 and to chosen, limited guests of Stoclet at his home. Following the death of Stoclet and his wife in 1949, their children inherited Duccio's Madonna and Child along with the rest of the collector's assemblage. Although the coveted work of art was of interest to scholars, they were unable ...
Madonna with Child and Six Angels, or The Perugia Madonna, is a Madonna painting by Gothic artist Duccio di Buoninsegna. It was painted between 1300 and 1305, (tempera and gold on wood) and is located at the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, in Perugia, Italy. The painting had been kept above the sacristy door of the monastery of San Domenico in ...