16 examples of duccio in sentences

A marble relief of the Madonna and Children by Agostino di Duccio (1418-1481) must be sought for: it is No. 77 and the children are the merriest in Florence.

But I should add that of Cimabue we know practically nothing, and that most of Vasari's statements have been confuted, while the painter of the S. Maria Novella Madonna is held by some authorities to be Duccio of Siena.

Examples of the pure Byzantine bring us to those of the Greco-Italian school, and these to the early Italian, represented (in its Umbrian branch) by Cimabue, by Giotto and his followers, the Gaddi, Cavallini, Giottino, Orgagna, and others; while of the Sienese we have Duccio, Simone di Martino, and Lorenzetti, with more of less note.

The real culprit was Agostino di Antonio di Duccio, or Guccio, who had succeeded with another colossal statue for the Duomo.

The façade of the Oratory of S. Bernardino at Perugia, designed and executed by Agostino di Duccio, is a masterpiece of rare beauty in this style.

The first great painter among the Sienese was Duccio di Buoninsegna.

At last, on June 9, 1310, it was carried from Duccio's workshop to its place in the cathedral.

Duccio's altar-piece presented on one face to the spectator a Virgin seated with the infant Christ upon her lap, and receiving the homage of the patron saints of Siena.

What gives peculiar value to this elaborate work of Sienese art is, that in it Duccio managed to combine the tradition of an early hieratic style of painting with all the charm of brilliant colouring and with dramatic force of presentation only rivalled at that time by Giotto.

After the days of Duccio and Simone Martini, of Ambrogio and Pietro Lorenzetti, were over, there remained but little for the Sienese to do in painting.

Taddeo di Bartolo continued the tradition of Duccio as the later Giottesques continued that of Giotto.

Luca della Robbia 1400 1482 Agostino di Duccio after 1461 Antonio Rossellino 1427 1478?

Andrea Orcagna about 1369 Ambrogio Lorenzetti about 1348 Pietro Lorenzetti about 1350 Taddeo Gaddi about 1300 1366 Francesco Traini after 1378 Duccio di Buoninsegna about 1320 Simone Martini 1285?

Duccio da Sienathe two masters whose Madonnas were borne in solemn procession through the streets of Florence and Siena, mid music and the pealing of bellshad given the new impulse to painting which brought them immortal fame.

It is supposed to represent a certain Duccio Constanzo of Treviso, and was once attributed to Giorgione: it is certainly of the school of Bellini.

"] The first action described in this legend (the afflicted Mother embracing the arm of her Son) is precisely that which was adopted by the Greek masters, and by the early Italians who followed them, Nicolo Pisano, Cimabue, Giotto, Puccio Capanna, Duccio di Siena, and others from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century.

16 examples of  duccio  in sentences