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SCHMIDT, VICTOR M.: A Duccesque Fragment of the Coronation of the Virgin

16. Duccio di Buoninsegna: Maestà, front, reconstruction John White. on the reverse. Six of the Marian scenes have survived, all in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo: the Annunciation of the Virgin's Death, Farewell of St John the Evangelist, the Apostles' Farewell, the Dormition of the Virgin, the Funeral, and the Entombment. In their turn, these panels must have been crowned by angels; a document from the years 1308-1309 mentions «li angieletti di sopra», and four angel busts have actually survived." According to John White, comparisons with other polyptychs by Duccio and his circle make it likely that the central part was not crowned by an angel, but by a bust of the Redeemer.

12 The main problem, however, concerns the imagery between the supposed Redeemer above and the enthroned Virgin of the main panel below. 11 Formerly Brussels, Stoclet Collection; Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Johnson Collection; 's-Heerenberg, Huis Bergh, J.H. van Heek Collection; South Hadley (Mass.), Mount Holyoke College. 12 White, J., Measurement, design and carpentry in Duccio's Maestà, Art Bulletin 55 ( 1973) 334-366, 547-567, esp. 557; White, J., Duccio. Tuscan art and the Medieval workshop, London 1979, 88.