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Maesta — Sienese painting's founder

Siena's answer to Giotto. His Maestà for the Siena Cathedral — carried through the streets in a public procession — is the supreme achievement of the Sienese school: Byzantine gold ground transfigured by a new tenderness and narrative clarity.

Key works

• Maestà (Siena Cathedral)1311— Carried in procession — Siena's civic treasure
  Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena
• Rucellai Madonna1285— Long attributed to Cimabue
  Uffizi, Florence

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