Duccio

“The Met’s very own Mona Lisa” (Tomkins 9). That is what Duccio di Buoninsegna’s Madonna and Child painting is known as today. “The Metropolitan Museum of Art bought the Madonna and Child for forty-five to fifty million dollars” (Tomkins 1). However, the painting was not always in public hands; in fact, the Met purchased the last known work of Duccio in private hands. Originally, the painting was held in the private hands of Adolphe Stoclet and his wife. When the couple died, their house and

recognized from this period in art history. Duccio di Buoninsegna was an Italian painter, active in the city of Siena. His most famous work of art is the Maesta Altarpiece located in the Cathedral of Siena. At that time, Siena was very competitive with Florence. The greatest Florentine painter was Giotto di Bondone. He was a couple years younger than Duccio. Giotto’s crowning achievement is a series of fresco murals painted in the Arena Chapel. Duccio and Giotto were two astonishing artists. Duccio’s

the cathedral interior (fig. 3). In 1308, Duccio di Buoninsegna was hired for this reason. Duccio completed the requested polyptych, or multipaneled, altarpiece three years

or themes of the cities in which they are working at certain points in time. Take Duccio for example. His first commission for a Maestá was in Florence for a Dominican-oriented group that sought to do good deeds in the name of the Virgin Mary. Therefore it comes as no surprise that the altarpiece for the Santa Maria Novella church would depict the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child as the main subject matter. As Duccio was a Sienese painter and was influenced by other Sienese painters, many aspects

Before the Renaissance, paintings from the classical time are about nothing but religion. Expressionless faces of Jesus Christ, the Madonna and the saints made them inaccessible to people. People’s body and minds were both framed, and the existence of human being seemed to be negligible and worthless compare to gods. “Man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature”, as Blaise Pascal points out, but he continues with the most important phrase: “but he is a thinking reed”. Thinking gives human the

painting as a whole, you can see the light source coming from the single direction and illuminating the figures on each side. This helps create sense of space and believability. This same painting was also painted by another artist in Siena named Duccio. The more mature work of Giotto which made him the leader in the development of the western paining is the fresno’s in the Arena Chapple. These painting were executed as Fresco, a method whereby moist plaster was applied only to an area of the painting

While most Renaissance art is easily attributable to the artist that created it, an artist’s work could vary dramatically depending on the city and patron for which the piece was commissioned. The fourteenth century Sienese artist Simone Martini was and example of these easily recognizable artists. Martini was known for his Gothic style that was influenced by northern Europe, but within two of his panel paintings, The Altarpiece of St. Louis of Toulouse and The Annunciation, he exhibited different

In the poem, ‘A Mother in A Refugee Camp’ Chinua Achebe conveys the close relationship between a mother and a son. Achebe starts with the imagery of the famous painting of “Madonna and Child” by Duccio di Buoninsegna. The painting symbolizes Madonna as Mary, who is seen as the mother of Jesus here because in the bible her character is seen to be lovely and every parent-child relationship is just like that of Mary and Jesus, tender and caring. This is emphasized in the second line of this stanza,

The most important difference between Maestà and Antigone is the message that each portrays to society. Duccio di Buoninsegna’s series of individualized paintings depicting the Virgin Mary display her as a central figure that is respected and possibly worshiped by both men and women. Sophocles’ play on the other hand displays female oppression through his main character and the lack of dedication to religion by men. I think this is an important difference because each work of art exposes the beliefs

I will be comparing and contrasting the Easter Story by Giotto Di Bondone with Duccio di Buoninsegna’s Maesta. Easter Story is located in the Arena Scrovegni chapel in Padua, Italy. Maesta is located in Museo dell ’Opera Metropolitana del Duomo, Siena, Italy. There are many comparisons and contrasting aspects to both works made by these renowned artists. Both art works tell the story of Jesus Christ. The narrative begins with Jesus’s grandparents and ends with the death and crucifixion of Jesus