Word: buoninsegna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, et al. If pressed to name his favorite Uncle Sam will smile; he doted on all of them, but might admit that Duccio di Buoninsegna's The Calling of St. Peter and St. Andrew (purchased for $250,000 through Lord Duveen four years ago from the Clarence Mackay collection) was perhaps his best-loved "child...
...June 9, 1311, the great Italian banking city of Siena was fighting an economic death struggle with booming Florence as Duccio di Buoninsegna finished his altarpiece for the cathedral. The city's nine merchant magistrates declared a public holiday. Duccio and his altarpiece were paraded through the streets to the cathedral. At the sight the Siennese fell on their knees as all the church bells tolled. Siena's greatest masterpiece, this work marked both the end of the Byzantine influence which the Crusaders had brought back from Palestine and the beginning of an authentic Christian...
...name was on the tongue of the entire art world. One purchase of $250,000 had lifted his little known collection of Italian paintings to front-rank eminence. For that sum Mr. Kress had just bought from Clarence Hungerford Mackay one of the four paintings by Duccio di Buoninsegna in the U. S. Art dealers throughout the country agreed that the 5-10-25? storeman had got a bargain...
Duccio di Buoninsegna (circa 1255-1319) was the last and possibly the greatest of Byzantine painters. Their style of flat, formalized, brilliantly colored art was already dying in Duccio's time. Working in Siena as a decorator of book covers and gift boxes, he kept the tradition alive through his interest in the illuminated miniatures of old Byzantine manuscripts...
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