DUCCIO di Buoninsegna
(b. ca. 1255, Siena, d. 1319, Siena)

Polyptych No. 47 (detail)

after 1310
Tempera on wood, 80 x 60 cm
Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena

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 half-length 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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