Duccio valuation
Sienese painter of the great Maestà for Siena Cathedral, and a founder of Sienese painting.
Duccio di Buoninsegna (about 1255–1319) was the leading painter of Siena in his time and the founder of its school.
What a work by Duccio is worth
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Bio
Duccio di Buoninsegna (about 1255–1319) was the leading painter of Siena in his time and the founder of its school. The Rucellai Madonna of 1285, painted for Santa Maria Novella in Florence and now in the Uffizi, is his earliest documented work. His Maestà for the high altar of Siena Cathedral, painted from 1308 to 1311, was carried from his workshop to the cathedral in a public procession. Its many small scenes of the life of Christ combine Byzantine gold and pattern with a new interest in space and human exchange. The altarpiece was later sawn apart, and panels from it are in London, New York, Washington and elsewhere.
Works accepted as his are extremely scarce and nearly all are in museums; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York bought a small Madonna and Child in 2004. What appears on the market is usually from his workshop or his followers, often fragments of altarpieces. A valuation depends on attribution, the state of the gold ground and the paint surface, the condition of the panel, and a history of ownership that accounts for how a fragment left its original setting.
At a glance
- Born
- 1255, Siena
- Died
- 1319, Siena
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