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Maestà logo #10101) Angel in art 2) Christian art 3) Gothic painting 4) Painting by Cimabue 5) Painting by Duccio 6) Painting by Simone Martini 7) Painting on gold background
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Maestà

Maestà logo #21000 Maestà, the Italian word for `majesty`, designates an iconic formula of the enthroned Madonna with the child Jesus, whether or not accompanied with angels and saints. The Maestà is an extension of the `Seat of Wisdom` theme of the seated `Mary Theotokos`, `Mary Mother of God`, which is a counterpart to the earlier icon of Christ in Majes...
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Maestà logo #21000[Cimabue] The Maestà is a painting by the Italian artist Cimabue (c. 1240–1302), painted around 1280 and housed in Musée du Louvre of Paris, France. ==History== It was acquired by the Louvre in 1813, as part of the Napoleonic spoiling of artworks in Italy, together with Giotto`s Stigmata of St. Francis, also from San Francesco. The work...
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Maestà logo #21000[Duccio] The Maestà, or Maestà of Duccio is an altarpiece composed of many individual paintings commissioned by the city of Siena in 1308 from the artist Duccio di Buoninsegna. The front panels make up a large enthroned Madonna and Child with saints and angels, and a predella of the Childhood of Christ with prophets. The reverse has the r...
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Maestà logo #21000[Simone Martini] The Maestà is a fresco (970x763 cm) by Simone Martini. It takes up the whole north wall of the Sala del Mappamondo or Sala del Consiglio in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena. It dates to 1315 and is considered as one of the artist`s masterpieces and one of the most important examples of 14th-century Italian art. ...
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Maesta logo #21040Artwork or sculpture, which portrays the Madonna and the Christ child upon a throne, usually attended by angels.
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Maestà logo #21003(from the article `Duccio`) The work in which the genius of Duccio unfolds in all its brilliant fullness and the one to which the painter owes his greatest fame, however, is the ... ...the upper church of St. Francis was decorated by Roman-trained fresco painters between about 1280 and 1300. In Tuscany the stylistic changes are ... [...
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Maestà logo #21003(from the article `Martini, Simone`) Simone`s earliest documented painting is the large fresco of the `Maestà` in the Sala del Mappamondo of the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena. The fresco ...
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maestà logo #21003(from the article `Madonna`) ...in the 14th century, painted altarpieces became common, the Madonna enthroned, derived from the nikopoia, was a favourite subject for a time; it ...
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