Memoirs of the early Italian painters / by Anna Jameson; thoroughly revised and in part rewritten by Estelle M. Hurll.
- Anna Brownell Jameson
- Date:
- 1899
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Memoirs of the early Italian painters / by Anna Jameson; thoroughly revised and in part rewritten by Estelle M. Hurll. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![cession, attended by music and rejoicing crowds, to its place in the cathedral. In the year 1506 it was removed. The panel was afterwards sawed through into two parts: one side (the Madonna) now hangs in the chapel of Sant’ Ansano, to the left of the choir; the other (the life of Christ) on the right hand, opposite. They are accounted among the most precious monuments of early Art. The predella, which was beneath the Madonna, contained, as usual, small subjects from the history of the Virgin Mary—these, live in number, are now in the [Opera del Duomo, Siena]. Besides this great altar-piece, only a [few] undoubted pictures by Duccio are known to exist.1 [One of these is in the National Gallery ; two others are at Cologne.] All these artists (Niccolo Pisano excepted) still worked on in the trammels of Byzantine art. The first painter of his age who threw them wholly off, and left them far behind him, was Giotto. 1 A series of outline engravings from Duccio’s History of our Lord was published at Rome by Dr. Emil Braun, the celebrated archaeologist, and these justify the praise and admiration which is now accorded to the grace, the sim- plicity, and the spiritual significance of these beautiful compositions.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24877888_0049.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
