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Duccio 0 Appearance Behind Locked Doors 0 Appearance While the Apostles are at Table 0 Doubting Thomas 0Duccio di Buoninsegna Maesta Madonna with Angels and Saints by Italian oil painting art paintings abstract 0 Rucellai Madonna 0 Triptych 0 Triptych 2 0Duccio di Buoninsegna Window by Italian oil painting art paintings abstract 4 Madonna and Child |
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Duccio di Buoninsegna Biography Also known as: Duccio, Duccio de
Buoninsegna, Duccio di Boninsegna. |
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The great age of the Sienese
School started with Duccio di Buoninsegna. Neither
contemporary accounts of him nor any
personally written documents have come down
to us. Though there are many records for
Duccio in municipal archives: records of
changing of address, payments, civil
penalties and contracts, which help to get
an idea of the life of the painter. |
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| At the beginning of the 14th century Siena was competing with its neighbor, Florence, for political and artistic supremacy in central Italy. Duccio di Buoninsegna seems to have played an important role in this period of economic and artistic expansion in Siena. In 1295, along with other masters from the cathedral stonemasons’ lodge, Duccio di Buoninsegna was appointed to a special committee that was to decide where a new fountain should be installed. Seven years later, in 1302, Duccio di Buoninsegna received payments for an altarpiece with a predella – now lost – which he was due to paint for a chapel in the Palazzo Publico, the seat of the municipal government. |
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Finally, his most significant commission for
the city was the new monumental picture of
the Madonna for the cathedral’s high altar,
the Maestà. The surviving contract from
1308, as well as various payment records for
1311, documents the creation and
installation of this work. The last entry on Duccio di Buoninsegna in the municipal archives is dated October 1319. In it his seven children declare that they are foregoing their inheritance in favor of their mother. This means that their father must have died in 1318 or 1319. Today nine or ten paintings definitely by Duccio’s hand are known. They are: the Crevoli Madonna (1280), the Madonna of the Franciscans (1300), Madonna in the Galleria Nazionale of Perugia, the Maestà (1308-1311), the Rucellai Madonna (1285), a Madonna in a private collection in Brussels, two altarpieces in the Pinacoteca Nazionale of Siena, The Holy Virgin with the Christ Child and Four Saints (1300); and two triptychs, one in the National Gallery in London, The Holy Virgin and the Christ Child with St. Dominic and St. Aurea (1300), and one in the Museum of Fine Art in Boston. |
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A faithful
follower of Byzantine painting, Duccio di Buoninsegna
managed to give to his traditionally painted
figures fresh humanity and life with his
newfound sensitivity to color and line. The
delicate Virgins in Perugia, London, and
also Siena provide wonderful examples of
Duccio’s poetic rendering of feeling. While his paintings may seem rooted in the Byzantine tradition, one can distinguish the first signs of the International Gothic art that was to influence Simone Martini and the Lorenzetti brothers. |
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