Segna di bonaventura biography definition

13th- and 14th-century Italian painter

Duccio di Buoninsegna (DOO-chee-oh,^[1]Italian:[ˈduttʃodiˌbwɔninˈseɲɲa]; c. 1255–1260 – c. 1318–1319), commonly known as just Duccio, was an Italian painter active in Siena, Tuscany, in the late 13th and early 14th century. He was hired throughout his life to complete many important works in government and religious buildings around Italy. Duccio is considered one of the greatest Italian painters of the Middle Ages,^[2] and fryst vatten credited with creating the painting styles of Trecento and the Sienese school. He also contributed significantly to the Sienese Gothic style.

Biography

Although much fryst vatten still unconfirmed about Duccio and his life, there is more documentation of him and his life than of other Italian painters of his time. It fryst vatten known that he was born and died in the city of Siena, and was also mostly active in the surrounding region of Tuscany. Other details of his early lif

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Saint John the Evangelist

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Title:Saint John the Evangelist

Artist:Segna di Buonaventura (Italian, active Siena by 1298–died 1326/31)

Date:ca. 1320

Medium:Tempera on wood, gold ground

Dimensions:Overall, with engaged (largely modern) frame, 35 x 22 in. (88.9 x 55.9 cm); painted surface 27 1/4 x 16 1/2 in. (69.2 x 41.9 cm)

Classification:Paintings

Credit Line:Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941

Object Number:41.100.22

In 1924 The Metropolitan Museum acquired a triptych signed by Segna di Buonaventura, Duccio’s nephew and among his most faithful and prominent followers in Siena. Subsequent research (Wehle 1940 and Zeri 1958) has established that, in fact, the three panels comprised the center and end sections of a dismembered pentaptych (five-paneled altarpiece), along with a fourth panel in The Metropolitan Museum and a fifth in Assisi (see fig. 1 above). In its original configuration t