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Duccio di Buoninsegna One of the greatest Italian painters of the Middle Ages ABHISHEK SINGH

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  • 1. Duccio di Buoninsegna One of the greatest Italian painters of the Middle AgesABHISHEK SINGH

2. HISTORY Duccio di Buoninsegna (c. 1255-1260 c. 1318-1319) was an Italian artist, active in the city of Siena in Tuscany, where he was born, in the late 13th and early fourteenth centuries. 3. DUCCIO . The father of Sienese painting and along with a few others the founder of Western art. Duccio was a master of tempera. One of the first painters to put figures in architectural settings. He began to explore and investigate depth and space. 4. STYLE His known works are on wood panel, painted in egg tempera and embellished with gold leaf. Used Warm colors in his painting. He also had a refined attention to emotion, not seen in other painters at this time. He used modeling (playing with light and dark colors) 5. KNOWN SURVIVING WORKS Madonna with Child - Tempera and gold on wood, Museo d'arte sacra della Val d'Arbia, Buonconvento, near Siena,Madonna with Child and two Angels (Also known as the Crevole Madonna; c. 1280) - Tempera and gold on wood, Museo dell'Opera Metropolitana, SienaMadonna with Child enthroned and six Angels (c. 1285) - Also known as the Rucellai Madonna / Madonna Rucellai - Tempera and gold on wood, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy (on deposit from Santa Maria Novella)Crucifix - Tempera on wood, Odescalchi Collection, Rome, formerly in the Castello Orsini at BraccianoCrucifix of San Francesco in Grosseto (1289), - Grosseto, Church of San FrancescoMadonna of the Franciscans (c. 1300) - Tempera and gold on wood, Pinacoteca Nazionale, SienaAssumption, Burial and Crowning of the Virgin - Stained glass window, Siena CathedralMaest - Tempera and gold on wood - Kunstmuseum, Bern, SwitzerlandMadonna and Child - Tempera and gold on wood, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (formerly in the Stoclet Collection, Brussels, Belgium)[3][6]Madonna with Child and six Angels - Tempera and gold on wood, Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia, Italy 6. FEW WORKS OF DUCCIO 7. Maest, panel painting by Duccio, 130811 Tempera and gold on wood 8. Madonna Rucellai tempera on wood 9. The Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and Aurea, tempera on wood 10. JESUS TAKEN PRISONER - BY DUCCIO This tempera on wood, created by Duccio between 130811, shows Judas as he identifies Jesus (by kissing him on the cheek). Peter (on the left side of the painting) reacts by cutting off the ear of one of the men 11. Angel - Duccio di Buoninsegna 12. Madonna with Child and six Angels Tempera and gold on wood 13. Thank you