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contemporary, the Sienese Duccio, the last illustrious Byzantine master, and still more inferior to his own scholar Giotto, the first of the great Florentines; but he deserves to be remembered as a painter whose work gave the first promise of a return to nature, and who may justly be called a herald of the coming dawn.

Chief Works—

Florence.—Accademia delle belle Arti: 102. Madonna and Child, with Angels and Prophets.
Florence.„—S. Maria Novella: Rucellai Chapel: Madonna and Child with Angels.^[1]
Assisi.—Upper Church: Frescoes—Crucifixion, Angels.
Assisi.„ Lower Churchy S. transept: Madonna and Angels with St. Francis.
Pisa.—Duomo: Mosaic of St. John.
Paris.—Louvre: 1260. Madonna and Child, with six Angels.

1. Not only Dr. Richter, but Dr. Wickhoff and Mr. Langton Douglas, hold the Rucellai Madonna to be the work of Duccio, while Signer Suida and others ascribe it neither to Cimabue nor Duccio, but to an unknown Sienese artist.