( fl c. 1305–20). Italian painter. He is named after the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints (Città di Castello, Pin. Com.), which may derive from a lost composition by Duccio di Buoninsegna. The painting is the earliest work of a corpus that also includes a dismembered polyptych of the Virgin and Child (Siena, Mus. Opera Duomo, 24) and SS Augustine, Paul, Peter and Anthony Abbot (Siena, Pin. N., 29–32); a polyptych of the Virgin and Child with SS Francis, John the Evangelist, Stephen and Chiara (Siena, Pin. N., 33); and a third altarpiece composed of a Virgin and Child (Copenhagen, Stat. Mus. Kst), St Peter and St John the Baptist (New Haven, CT, Yale U. A.G., 1943. 242 and 1943. 243), as well as a St Francis (ex-Lanckoronski priv. col., Vienna). A Virgin and Child in Detroit (Detroit, MI, Inst. A., 24.96) is a closely related shop work. Although inclined to borrow heavily from Duccio and perhaps also from Segna di Bonaventura and Ugolino di Nerio, the Master had a distinctive style rooted in late 13th-century Sienese painting, and his works continued to reflect these origins well into the second decade of the 14th century. He was an interesting colourist, with a preference for subtle variations and pale hues, but his work had little impact on a younger generation in Siena.

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• Città di Castello, Master of
  • Duccio, §II: Working methods and technique