Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1290–1300 Tempera and gold on wood, 27.9 x 21 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This lyrical work inaugurates the grand tradition in Italian art of envisioning the sacred figures…
Cimabue (1240-1302) Maestà (Madonna and Child Enthroned with Prophets) c.1290–1300 Tempera on wood, gold background, 384 x 223 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
(c.1245–1304) Giovanni Malatesta Gianciotto, called “Gianne lo Sciancato” (Gianne the crippled) Lord of Pesaro (1294–1304) Gianciotto Malatesta in Literature: • Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321): Divina Commedia (Italian) Gianciotto Malatesta in Art: Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Paolo et Francesca 1814 Musée Condé, Chantilly Ingres, Jean…
Rulers: • Gianciotto Malatesta, Lord of Pesaro (1294-1304) Art: • Cimabue (1240-1302): Maestà (c.1290-1300) • Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319): Madonna col Bambino (c.1290-1300)