Duccio

Duccio di Buoninsegna (His about 1255-1260 - about 1318-1319) was in its time the Sienan great painter; its importance is measured even on a European scale. It is generally considered that its influence was determining in the evolution of the international Gothic style; she was exerted in particular on Simone Martini and the two brothers Ambrogio and Pietro Lorenzetti,

Its work includes/understands in particular two very famous parts:

the Madonna Rucellai going back to 1285 - painted for the church Santa Maria Novella and currently with the Museum of the Offices of Florence
a Madonna painted on wood about 1300.
famous the Maestà (1308-11) painted for the cathedral of His and visible in the permanent exposure which is devoted to him to the Musée of Work (like its Noli me tangere ).
Initialement, it was carried in procession in the streets of His at the time of religious ceremonies. The Maestà is a painted imposing composition on the two sides, that the historical vicissitudes deprived of its framework and some secondary parts. This remarkable Polyptyque, greeted like a masterpiece and the symbol even of the city of His, constitutes an essential stake in the evolution of painting, resulting from the Byzantine tradition, towards a more descriptive visual art. Above a detail of the principal scene.

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