buoninsegna

Updated: June 27, 2025

It is as a divine decoration that Sienese art comes to us in the profound and splendid work of Duccio di Buoninsegna, the delicate and lovely work of Simone Martini, the patient work of the Lorenzetti. The masterpiece, perhaps, of Duccio is the great Rucellai Madonna of S. Maria Novella.

Edward Hutton - Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa: With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson: And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition

Now he holds his place among the stars of heaven." Other artists who were important in this early time of the revival of painting were ANDREA TAFI, a mosaist of Florence, MARGARITONE OF AREZZO, GUIDO OF SIENA, and of the same city DUCCIO, the son of Buoninsegna.

Clara Erskine Clement Waters - A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture

The first great painter among the Sienese was Duccio di Buoninsegna. The completion of his masterpiece a picture of the Majesty of the Virgin, executed for the high altar of the Duomo marked an epoch in the history of Siena.

John Addington Symonds - Renaissance in Italy Volume 3: The Fine Arts

In a letter, dated May 8, 1517, to Domenico Buoninsegna, Michael Angelo writes with enthusiasm about his new scheme, and undertakes to carry it out for 35,000 golden ducats in six years. Buoninsegna replied that the Cardinal expressed the highest satisfaction at "the great heart he had for conducting the work of the façade."

Sir Charles Holroyd - Michael Angelo Buonarroti : With Translations Of The Life Of The Master By His Scholar, Ascanio Condivi, And Three Dialogues From The Portugese By Francisco d'Ollanda