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The Polyptych no. 47 was originally in the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala and now it is in the Pinacoteca of Siena. Only the central part of the work is of indisputable Duccio authorship; the remaining panels are ascribed to an able, but as yet unknown, assistant. The poor condition of the panel with the Virgin and Child has reduced both its attractiveness and the possibility of more thorough research on it. However the superb monumentality of the halflength figures and the tender embrace of the mother and son reveal the undeniable presence of Duccio. The unusual posture of the legs of the Infant Jesus reappears here, a repetition of a solution already achieved in earlier Madonnas (from the Crevole Madonna to the Stoclet Madonna).
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