Word: duccios
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...know that his 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...
...Duccio", Professor Edgell, Fogg Museum small room...
...owner's generosity, in museums -the Royal Academy, the Burlington Fine Arts Club, the New Gallery Exhibition (in London and in Manchester). Soon Sir Joseph Duveen will bring them to the U. S. There are 120 in all. The artists may be grouped into the six Italian schools: Duccio di Buoninsegna of the Siena; Lippo Memmi and Brenna of Simone de Martino influence; Giotto, Ghirlandajo, Botticelli, del Sarto of the Florentine; Luini of the Milanese; Romano and Signorelli of the Ferrarese; Carlo Crivelli, Antonello, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Palma, Lotto, del Piombo, Bonifazio and Paolo Veronese of the Venetian...