Duccio
Duccio
11 1/4" x 11"
oil on panel
excerpt from novel:
(the two painters, Russell and Vincent, are standing in front of Duccio's Maesta in Sienna discussing it's transcendent power.)
Russell says, "Seven hundred years ago, in his confined tiny world, Duccio wanted his angels, his saints, his Madonna to come alive here, to inspire humility and devotion in the people he knew. He wanted his vision of heaven to comfort them. He couldn't foresee the Renaissance man, let alone the modern or post-modern man, Buddhist, Muslim, whatever, even the atheist that would come to stand here in front of his painting and within the context of their far more expansive worlds, their industrialized worlds filled with dying myths, still find his devotional icon moving and alive..."
