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The Maestà is a large, originally double-sided altarpiece painted by Duccio di Buoninsegna for the high altar of Siena Cathedral and installed there in 1311. Its principal front presented the enthroned Virgin and Child surrounded by saints and angels, while numerous smaller scenes narrated the lives...
The Rucellai Madonna is a monumental tempera-and-gold altarpiece painted by Duccio di Buoninsegna in 1285 for the Florentine confraternity known as the Laudesi at Santa Maria Novella. It shows the enthroned Virgin and Child surrounded by angels within an ornate architectural frame. Long attributed t...
Early 14th-century polyptych by Sienese master Simone Martini, painted for the church of Santa Chiara in Naples and notable for its refined gold-ground Gothic elegance.
Polyptych No. 28 is a multi-panel devotional painting attributed to Duccio di Buoninsegna, a central figure in the development of Sienese painting. Executed in tempera and gold on wood, it presents sacred figures in separate compartments against luminous gold grounds. Its refined line, restrained mo...
Altarpiece by Sienese painter Sano di Pietro dedicated to St. Bernardino of Siena, painted shortly after Bernardino's canonization in 1450 in the master's characteristic refined style.
