| Title: | The Incredulity of Thomas |
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| Notes: | 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, from which several panels are now dispersed or lost. 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 rest of a combined cycle of the Life of the Virgin and Life of Christ in a total of forty-three small scenes. Though it took a generation for its effect truly to be felt, Duccio's Maestà set Italian painting on a course leading away from the hieratic representations of Byzantine art towards more direct presentations of reality. -- from Wikipedia |
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| Date: | 1308-1311 |
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| Artist: | Duccio, di Buoninsegna, -1319? |
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| Building: | Museo dell’Opera del Duomo (Siena, Italy)
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| Object/Function: | Altarpiece |
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| City/Town: | Siena
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| Country: | Italy
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| Scripture: | John 20:19-23
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| Person as Subject: | Thomas, the Apostle (Biblical figure)
Jesus Christ (Biblical figure)
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| Lectionary links: | BEast02
AEast02
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| Attribution: | Duccio, di Buoninsegna, -1319?. The Incredulity of Thomas, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=54254 [retrieved March 20, 2025]. Original source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The-Maesta-Altarpiece-The-Incredulity-of-Saint-Thomas-1461_Duccio.jpg. |
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| Record Number: | 54254
Last Updated: 2021-09-09 12:40:20
Record Created: 2009-03-19 13:18:21 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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| Bibliographic Source: | Wikipedia. Community authorship. http://en.wikipedia.org |
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