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A 7 page paper which examines Duccio’s “Rucellai Madonna.” Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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in relation to the Sienese School as Giotto does to the Florentine; yet without the powerful naturalism that makes the art of Giotto so revolutionary."1 Many argue that he did
not focus on the serious and austere beauty that made up centuries of Byzantine tradition but rather brought in a new vision, a breath of humanity so to speak.2 The
following paper examines this work and its historical presence while also discussing the artist himself. Ruccelai Madonna Duccios "Ruccelai Madonna" is "an altarpiece showing the Madonna seated on a
throne with the infant Christ against a Byzantine gold background and flanked by kneeling angels. Painted for Santa Maria Novella in Florence, it is now in the Uffizi Gallery there."3
The painter himself was first recorded back in 1278 and 1279 where he worked for what was known as the Commune. In 1280 he was put down in records for
being given a very large fine, something he was to be known for apparently because he refused to swear fealty to individual officials.4 It was in the year 1285
that he was commissioned to do a large Madonna picture. It was ordered for the Florentine church of Sta Maria Novella. Interestingly enough, "the picture is sometimes called a work
of the Master of the Rucellai Madonna, and Vasari, in one of his patriotic moods, ascribed it to the Florentine Cimabue."5 The picture was, according to most scholars, likely painted
in Siena. probably painted in Siena, however there is also record, a few years later, of a "Duche de Siene" in Paris which many believe indicates the heavy Gothic
influence in relationship to the work produced by himself and his followers.6 In his work, though it may seem rigid and ancient to modern day viewers, there was a
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