1. Merchants and Friars: Late Medieval Italy II

2. Giotto di Bondone, Arena Chapel (Cappella degli Scrovegni), Padua, ca

4. Last Judgment

5. Enrico Scrovegni offering the chapel to the Virgin Mary

8. Annunciation

9. Panel-painted image of God

10. Map of Italy
ca. 1400

11. Duccio di Buoninsegna, Virgin and Child enthroned with angels (Rucellai Madonna), tempera and gold leaf on wood, 1285, painted for the lay confraternity of the Laudesi in the Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence (dimensions:
4.5 × 2.9 m)

14. Duccio di Buoninsegna, Virgin and Child enthoned with saints and angels, tempera and gold leaf on wood, central panel of the Maestà, from Siena Cathedral, (dimensions: 7’ x 13’)

15. Siena Cathedral

16. Reconstruction of Duccio’s Maestà

18. On the day on which it was carried to the Duomo, the shops were locked up and the bishop ordered a great and devout company of priests and brothers with a solemn procession, accompanied by the Signori of the Nine and all the officials of the Comune, and all the populace and all the most worthy were in order next to the said panel with lights lit in their hands, and then behind were women and children with much devotion; and they accompanied it right to the Duomo making procession around the Campo, as was the custom, sounding all the bells in glory out of devotion for such a noble panel as was this.
Anonymous Sienese chronicler,
mid-14th century

19. Holy Mother of God, be thou the cause of peace for Siena and life to Duccio because he painted thee thus.

20. central panel of the Maestà
Duccio di Buoninsegna, Virgin and Child enthoned with saints and angels,
central panel of the Maestà

21. Duccio di Buoninsegna, Scenes from the Life of Christ,
back of the Maestà

22. Duccio di Buoninsegna,
Crucifixion, from the Maestà

23. Duccio di Buoninsegna, Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin, from the Maestà

24. Siena Cathedral

25. Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi, Annunciation with Sts Ansanus and Margaret, tempera and gold leaf on wood, from the altar of St Ansanus, Siena Cathedral, 1333 (frame: 19th century)

27. Silver-gilt statue of the Virgin and Child
(Virgin of Jeanne d’Évreux), 1339

28. Pietro Lorenzetti, Birth of the Virgin, tempera and gold leaf on wood, from the altar of St Savinus, Siena Cathedral, 1342