Florentine painter, c.1240 - c.1302

	"He did a panel picture of Our Lady for the church of Santa Naria Novella, where it hangs up high between the Rucellai chapel and the chapel of the Bardi.." I-53 This painting is now accepted as the work of Duccio, a Siennese painter. Vasari was too fierce a partisan of Florence to admit that! Madonna Rucellai, by Duccio di Buoninsegna.  Uffizi, Florence
	"This painting so astonished his contemporaries, who had never seen anything better, that it was carried to the sound of trumpets and amid scenes of great rejoicing in solemn procession from Cimabue's house; and Cimabue was generously praised and rewarded for it." (I-53) This story was painted by Lord Leighton in 1853 Cimabue's celebrated Madonna is carried in procession through the streets of Florence
	"In San Francesco at Pisa, there is a small panel by his hand; it shows Christ hanging on the Cross with St John, who is there grief-stricken on the left." I-54 Mosiac c.1300-1302, San Francesco, Pisa