Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Rose Window from Siena Cathedral
Image View:
Overall view as installed in museum
Creator:
attributed to Duccio (Italian artist, ca. 1255- ca. 1319)
Location:
repository: Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Siena, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Piazza Duomo, 8
GPS:
43.3177 11.3296
Date:
1287-1290 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Gothic (Medieval)
Work Type 1:
stained glass (visual work)
Work Type 2:
window
Classification:
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Material:
stained glass; lead
Technique:
construction (assembling); stained glass
Measurements:
6 m (diameter)
Subjects:
decorative arts; New Testament; saints; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Sienese
Description:
The large stained glass rose window (after the designs of Duccio di Buoninsegna) was made to fill the round oculus opening above the Siena Cathedral's chancel between 1287 and 1290, and has now been installed at the end of a ground floor room of the cathedral museum. The window contains three stories from the life of the Virgin, the Burial, the Assumption and the Coronation, in its three superimposed central registers, while on either side of the central panel are depictions of Siena's four patron saints, St. Bartholomew, St. Ansanus, St. Crescentius and St. Sabinus. (Source: Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena; http://operaduomo.si ena.it/en/sites/muse um/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
6A1-BUON-SC-SRW-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Rose Window from Siena Cathedral