Duccio di buoninsegna biography for kids
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Duccio
Duccio was one of the most important painters of 14th-century Italy. He ran a large workshop which shaped generations of Sienese artists. His pupils were influential on Florentine art.
His greatest work was the double-sided altarpiece, the 'Maestà', made between 1308-11. The Gallery's 'The Annunciation', 'Jesus opens the Eyes of a Man born Blind' and 'The Transfiguration' are fragments from it.
Duccio's date of birth is not known but he was active in Siena by 1278, and spent most of his working life there. He is unusual among medieval artists for being well documented. Duccio's art is based on Byzantine sources, but was deeply influenced by the sculpture of the Pisani and by French Gothic metalwork. His work is both decorative in the use of line, colour and pattern, and highly expressive. He is less interested in volume, than his younger contemporary Giotto.
'The Maestà' was one of the largest and most complex altarpieces ever produced. Its influence can be seen in the pr
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Duccio di Buoninsegna: life, works and masterpieces of the great Sienese painter
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Duccio di Buoninsegna: the life and major works of the father of the 14th-century Sienese school.
Duccio di Buoninsegna (Siena, c. 1255 - 1318) is one of the most significant and influential painters in the history of Italian art. We do not have much information about him, but his art was indispensable for the artists of later generations. Duccio, considered the father of the Sienese school, formed himself in the wake of the tradition of his hometown, Siena, which was still based on a Byzantine style, and brought it up to date with the achievements of Cimabue (the two were often so close that in the past many of Duccio’s works were attributed to Cimabue) and the innovations of the French Gothic: in particular, Duccio gave the Sienese school the refined and elegant taste that, from him onward, would be one of the defining characteri
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Duccio di Buoninsegna
Master of Sienese Art.
Duccio di Buoninsegna was born in Siena, Tuscany in about 1256. He was one of the most influential artists of his time along with that other great mästare from Tuscany, Cimabue. He spent his entire working life in Siena. Despite not having a great deal of upplysning about his personal life, we do know that he fathered at least seven children and that he died in 1318 or 1319.
Works attributed to him number no more than nine or ten, but Duccio did bridge the artistic gap between the Byzantine age and the uppstart of the Renaissance. His painting of a Madonna from 1300 was purchased bygd the storstads- Museum of Art in New York City and has caused considerable controversy given its price tag of 45 million dollars.
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