Description

Work drawn from: Duccio di Buoninsegna, XIV century. Work performed with the ancient pictorial techniques of the Sienese school of the fifteenth century. Technique: tempera and gold on wood. ART REPRODUCTION by Duccio di Buoninsegna (copyright copy by Silvia Salvadori). Icon, Annunciation on a gold background. Hand painted sacred icon. Medieval painting. Icon, art reproduction by Duccio di Buoninsegna. Reinterpretation of the icon of the Annunciation by Duccio di Buoninsegna. Predella of the Annunciation of the Polyptych of the Majesty by Duccio di Buoninsegna, Siena. History of the painting: The icon of the Annunciation is an autographed painting by Duccio di Buoninsegna belonging to the predella della Maestà of the Siena Cathedral, made with tempera and pure gold on panel in 1308-11, measuring 43 x 44 cm. and is kept in the National Gallery in London. The icon of the Annunciation by Duccio di Buoninsegna is often mentioned by ancient sources, it was purchased in the nineteenth century in the city of Florence. What has made scholars more discuss, is that pot-bellied vase containing lilies with - in itself - multiple perspective curves, which most critics agree in considering these curves the fruit a firm will of the artist: an annotation in the perspective solution, validated by the poetic quality of the evocation. It should be remembered that, with regard to this topic, there is (or existed) an icon of the Annunciation by Duccio di Buoninsegna often cited by scholars, who say it was commissioned by the church of Santa Trinità in Florence.