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Date : approx. between 1308 and 1311
Material : Tempera on canvas
Acquisition : Samuel H. Kress Collection (1939)
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Italian Painting
Painting
Area related
Siena (Italy)
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This was one of the rear panels of Duccio's magnificent Maestà in Siena cathedral. With more than fifty individual scenes, the altarpiece was about fourteen feet wide and towered to gabled pinnacles some seventeen feet over the main altar. It was installed in June 1311 after a triumphant procession through the streets of Siena.
Duccio, who received 3,000 gold florins, signed the main section of the Maestà which is still in Siena. His signature, one of the earliest, reads: "Holy Mother of God, be the cause of peace for Siena and life for Duccio because he painted you thus".
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