Text in Italian. A portfolio of 32pp of colour plate idepicting the various paintings which make up La Masta di Duccio, preceded by a brief critical and historical essay. Laminated, illustrated stiff card covers with French flaps. Slim elephant folio. Sone gentle edge wear to cover, Internally neat, clean bright and tight.
The Maestà of Duccio, is an altarpiece made up of numerous separate paintings commissioned from Duccio di Buoninsegna by the city of Siena in Tuscany at the beginning of the fourteenth century. It was Duccio's major work and the first altarpiece known to have both a front and back.
