Madonna and Child, ca. 1290?1300, Tempera and gold on wood, Overall, with engaged frame, 11 x 8 1/4 in. (27. 9 x 21 cm) ; painted surface 9 3/8 x 6 1/2 in. (23. 8 x 16. 5 cm), Paintings, Duccio di Buoninsegna (Italian, active by 1278?died 1318 Siena), Duccio is the founder of Sienese painting and one of the great figures of Western art. This lyrical work inaugurates the grand tradition in Italian art of envisioning the sacred figures of the Madonna and Child in terms appropriated from real life