Artist focus: Duccio di Buoninsegna master of the Italian Gothic

Part 1 of Siena in the 1300s; a new beginning

Duccio, Madonna delle Grazie, attributed to Duccio di Buoninsegna, Duomo di San Cerbone, Massa Marittima. 1311-1324. The soft 3 dimensional naturalness of the drapery was a major change from the previous Italo-Byzantine.

Duccio di Buoninsegna (c. 1255–1319), a Sienese painter of the late 13th and early 14th centuries, is considered one of the greatest ar…