Met defends authenticity of $50-million 'forgery' Jul 10, 2006
New York -- The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Thursday rejected claims that the most expensive painting it ever purchased, Madonna and Child by the early-Renaissance master Duccio di Buoninsegna, is a fake. The museum acquired the work, which is believed to have been painted around 1300, for more than $50-million in November, 2004. (Globe and Mail)
Museum denies fake painting claim Jul 8, 2006
Born in Siena around 1260, Duccio di Buoninsegna was the foremost painter of early Renaissance Siena. Only around a dozen of his works are known to have survived. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
New era, new race for riches Dec 18, 2004
Perhaps the museum has not yet recovered from its acquisition last month of the $45 million "Madonna and Child" by Duccio di Buoninsegna. The hunt for the unique continues. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Defending Duccio Nov 15, 2004
The price is interesting, and so is the painter - Duccio di Buoninsegna, who is not widely known - and its size, about the same as a sheet of typing paper. Perhaps no one would have thought twice if it had been a Leonardo da Vinci the size of an unfolded newspaper. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
People: Philippe de Montebello, Liza Minnelli, Charlie Rose, Kevin Spacey Nov 11, 2004
In its most expensive purchase ever, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has agreed to pay more than $45 million for a painting by the early Renaissance master Duccio di Buoninsegna that is no bigger than a sheet of typing paper. The work, "Madonna and Child," painted in tempera and gold on a wood panel around 1300, is the first Duccio to enter the Met's collection, filling a gap in its Renaissance holdings that the museum had assumed it could not close, said Philippe de Montebello,... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
"Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the ... Sep 30, 2003
...submit your arts news | media kit | about us | services | art history. Among the many important new discoveries presented in the exhibition is the only known illumination by the great Sienese master Duccio di Buoninsegna (Absolutearts.com)
