Compare and Contrast
Duccio, Madonna and Child - Gauguin, La Orana Maria

Madonna and Child is a panel painting by Italian medieval artist Duccio di Buoninsegna. Painted in tempera and gilded on a wood panel in around the year 1300, the Madonna and Child is still in its original engaged frame. The fact that it was in private hands and out of public circulation for years might be why the painting is basically intact after 700 years. The craftsmanship and preservation are simply amazing. The damaged lower edge of the frame is charred where devotional candles may have tipped over. The Madonna and Child is presently part of a special exhibition "The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions" in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The painting is very small and measures only 11 by 8 1/8 in., which in comparison is about the size of a legal sized piece of paper. Considered to be a rare and uniquely important early Renaissance......

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