5 pages (G97)

Student name: Xiaoyue Zhao

Section: Art of the Court

Instructor: Lindsey Leigh

Date: 03/18/2016

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"Why Duccio di Buoninsegna is being consider as the founder of Western Art?"

Abstract

Duccio di Buoninsegna was a great artist from Italy where he actively played part in the Western Art within the city of Siena in Tuscany. Buoninsegna was the originator and talent of the Sienese paintings among few others. He is regarded as the master of the tempera, because he was the first painter to think about architectural setting. His role in the Western Art is driven by the exploration as well as the investigation between depth and space area. His work was portrayed that there were great incorporation of the tempera embellished with gold leaf; it is similar to the wooden panel. Under his contextual work, he put into use warm colors during painting and revealed refined emotion from the attention of the viewers, which were not embraced from any other colors, because he played with dark and light colors only . From this work, it brings us to the direct attention in examining why Duccio di Buoninsegna was being famous as the originator of Western Art; it is better to the Western Art and the reason behind of it, and why it still regard as a symbol and a masterpiece of religious art.

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Introduction

During the late 1290-1310, the western art in fine painting combined a multiple of seminal changes that was introduced by the renowned styles of Giotto and Duccio. Both painters were found to explore the various ways under the pictorializing in giving out the message to Christian in order to enable them relate well with the biblical art across their experiences of the world while making them retain the mystery of Jesus Christ in the salvation role (Sienese 2016). With these objectives brings the key examination why Duccio di Buoninsegna is being consider as the founder of Western Art, which will enable in a better understanding of the Western Art and the reason behind why it still perceived to be a symbol and a masterpiece of religious art.

No other city had a well remarkable work comparably with the great painting school that ended in the Duccio figures. Duccio is considered the father of various painting from his extemporary paints. Sienese paintings make him to be the founder of the western art as the painting introduced the lyrical note that was refined with color sense within the European painting (Buoninsegna 2016).

Moreover, Duccio was found to unsurpass in telling stories, which made him to be a considerably good narrative artist. His paintings added the space interest in humans as well as their exploration of emotions. For example, his extemporary work in the enormous altarpiece for the Siena cathedral-the Maesta- provided him with a great landmark across the European paintings. This was a great invention, which played a major role in admitting that he was a real founder of the western art.

The front portrayed Madonna and Child whom were enthroned with the saints and the angels while it reverses were the magnificent fifty scenes under Jesus Christ (Kleiner 2016). It incorporated the landscapes, urban views as well as the astonishing invention of the interior settings. Hence, Ducccio’s Maesta’s was found to be the referencing point of all other the Sienese artistic works. In the two strands to be considered in the European art combined: that is the otherworldly, which were the Middle Age sacred art and the art of the human-oriented during the early Renaissance.

In addition to Duccio’s work, other contemporarily painters were found to use his lyrical vein. The incomparable refinement as well as descriptive abilities became the most prestigious sought-after work during the day, dying under the Avignon papal court in France and the famously praise in the renowned Petrarch poet (Baskett 2016).

Conclusion

Duccio’s art in the Maesta becomes the outstanding paint that has been found to be embraced by other painter with their lyrical note. This has also made Sienese artistic work to follow his footstep which has greatly maintained that Duccio to be the father of western art.

List of the images

· Life of Christ, facing the choir as well as the clergy during the services

· Sienese artists, Duccio’s Maesta reference point

· Sacred art of the Middle Ages, the European art in the human-oriented art of the early Renaissance

· Byzantine precedent, 1295 Duccio’s early work (Walther and Suckale 2016)

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