Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Maestá
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Maestá
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Alternate Title:
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Madonna and Child Enthroned with Angels and Saints
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Image View:
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Central detail, the Madonna holds the Christ Child on her lap
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Creator:
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Duccio (Italian painter, ca. 1255- ca. 1319)
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Location:
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repository: Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Siena, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Piazza Duomo, 8
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GPS:
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+43.3177+11.3296
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Date:
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1308-1311 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Fourteenth century; Gothic (Medieval)
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Work Type 1:
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altarpiece
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Work Type 2:
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panel painting
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Work Type 3:
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predella
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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tempera paint on wood panel; gold leaf gilding
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Technique:
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gilding (technique); painting and painting techniques
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Measurements:
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214 cm (height, main panel) x 412 cm (width, main panel)
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Subjects:
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New Testament; saints; Angels; Jesus Christ; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Sienese; Republic of Siena
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Description:
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The signed Maestà was placed on the high altar of Siena Cathedral on 9 June 1311, accompanied by a triumphal procession. The gigantic altarpiece (originally ca. 5.00 x 4.68 m) was painted on both sides. The front was composed of eleven vertical planks and the back of five horizontal planks, with front and back nailed directly together. The two predellas, the first surviving narrative predellas, were each painted on a single horizontal plank. The pinnacles were probably painted on two horizontal planks, nailed together. In 1771 the two faces of the altarpiece were sawn apart and since then the panels have led a somewhat peripatetic existence. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-DUCCIO-MS-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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