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Madonna and Child

Duccio is one of the great figures of Western art, and is the founder of Sienese painting. This piece of work inaugurates the tradition in Italian art of envisaging the holy figures of Madonna and Child. He was a great influential artist of the early 14th and late 13th century, and has created some remarkable pieces of work. This particular image seen throughout the western history art has a significant value, in term of stylistic advancement of religious subject matter that would continue to progress for centuries. The picture describes a changing moment in western art. Duccio with ...