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2003 and Siena Celebrates Duccio

(Duccio di Buoninsegna 1260 - 1319)

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Above and below - four sublime soft eyed and Etruscan nosed Madonnas by Duccio, and another magnificent catalogue for Dom Paradox's library from this huge exhibition

Early Italian Painters

 

Giovanni Cimabue (Florence) 1240 - 1302

Duccio di Buoninsegna (Siena) 1260 - 1319

Giotto del Bondone (Florence) 1266 - 1337

Ambrogio Lorenzetti (Siena) 1278 - 1348

Simone Martini (Siena) 1284 - 1344

 

THE BLACK DEATH 1348

A different approach from Ambrogio Lorenzetti Whilst Simone Martini sticks with the Duccio style
Other members of the cast by Duccio - you know who and Mary Magdalene
A contribution from Florence - Cimabue and Giotto Mother and Son by Duccio

 

The front side of Duccio's most famous painting - the Maestą (Virgin in Majesty) - painted between 1308 and 1311 for the high altar of the Siena Duomo.  On the back were 26 panels depicting scenes from the Passion of Christ.  Most of this ensemble (some of the panels have unforgivably found their way into galleries outside Italy) can be seen in the Museo dell'Opera - the cathedral museum located in the east aisle of the "Duomo Nuovo", along with the restored  six meter diameter oculus window (below) which Duccio designed for the apse of the 1200s Duomo, and which was first unveiled in the 2003 exhibition.

 

Amongst the other exhibits were these pieces of San Galgano memorabilia - on the left a silver and enamel crozier, and on the right a reliquary for his head.

 

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