The Great Painting series: The Madonna Enthroned by Duccio

The Great Painting series: The Lamentation of Christ by Giotto
_________________________
The Maestà, or Maestà of Duccio, is an altarpiece composed of many individual paintings commissioned by the city of Siena in 1308 from the artist Duccio di Buoninsegna and is his most famous work. The front panels make up a large enthroned Madonna and Child with saints and angels, and a predella of the Childhood of Christ with prophets. The reverse has the rest of a combined cycle of the Life of the Virgin and the Life of Christ in a total of forty-three small scenes; several panels are now dispersed or lost. The base of the panel has an inscription that reads (in translation): "Holy Mother of God, be thou the cause of peace for Siena and life to Duccio because he painted thee thus." Though it took a generation for its effect to be truly felt, Duccio's Maestà set Italian painting on a course leading away from the hieratic representations of Byzantine art towards more direct presentations of reality.
____________
SUBSCRIBE: / @stpaulgallery
Twitter: / gallery_st
Facebook: / the.biggest.art.collec...
Instagram: / st.paulgallery
Contact: [e-mail]
_________
Feel Free to Subscribe & Thank you for your support!
:| St. Paul Gallery |:
The EARTH without Art is just EH
© Copyright by St. Paul Gallery
___________________________________
All images courtesy of Public Domain and/or Creative Commons for educational purposes
Music courtesy of RUclips Creator Studio
#arthistory #art #history