Know Your Sacred Art Terms: What is Trecento painting?

No, the Renaissance, not everything's about you; sit down.

Duccio di Buoninsegna. Rucellai Madonna. Uffizi gallery, Florence. The perfect balance of Byzantine formalism and the soft, rounded and expressive shapes, elegant drapery and jewel tones of the Italian Trecento.

If you’ve followed my Hilary White; Sacred Art page, you’ll know I’m pretty big into a style of art that isn’t well known outside Italy, called …