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Madonna with Child and Two Angels, Madonna of Crevole - Detail
Copy of the original work, Reproduction painting, Medieval art shop.
The Crevole Madonna and the Madonna of Buonconvento are unanimously considered the earliest works attributable to Duccio. The basic approach of the two paintings is of evident Byzantine tradition: the elegant stylization of the hands, the typical downward curving nose, the red maphórion under Mary's veil, the dark drapery animated by shining gilded lines. New details appear, to a lesser extent in the Buonconvento Madonna and repeated with greater confidence in the Crevole painting, such as the subtle play of light on the Virgin's face, over her chin and cheeks, and a clear attempt at plasticism in the folds of the garment around the face.
The more carefully considered compositon of the Crevole Madonna shows a faint but decided French influence: the elegant forms of the angels in the upper corners, the veiled transparency of the Child's garment, held up by a curious knotted cord, and most of all, the intimate gesture of the Infant Jesus, held in a tender embrace.
Original: Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena, Italy.
Author: Duccio di Buoninsegna. Crevole Madonna. c. 1280. Tempera and gold on wood. Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena, Italy.
Measures: 21x26 cm
Technique: Tempera and gold on wood
Notes: Medieval painting reproduction. Sacred icon.
Duccio di Buoninsegna also known as Duccio(c. 1255-1260 c. 1318-1319) was one of the most influential Italian artists of his time. Born in Siena, Tuscany art, he worked mostly with pigment and egg tempera and like most of his contemporaries he painted religious subject matters. He has influenced Simone Martini and the brothers Ambrogio and Pietro Lorenzetti, among others.
His works include the Rucellai Madonna (1285) for Santa Maria Novella (now in the Uffizi) and the fabled Maestą (1308-11), his masterpiece, for Siena's cathedral. The centre of the Maestą depicts the Virgin and Child enthroned and surrounded by angels and saints. He also painted a work known as the Stoclet Madonna, the name stemming from its previous ownership by Stoclet in his collection in Brussels. The Madonna, painted on a wooden panel around the year 1300, was purchased in November 2004 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for an estimated sum of 45 million USD, the most expensive purchase ever by the museum. In 2006 James Beck, a scholar at Columbia University, stated that he believes the painting is a nineteenth century forgery; the Metropolitan Museum's curator of European Paintings has disputed Beck's assertion.
Siena art. Tuscany art
Price: Sold - copy of the original work
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