Duccio di Buoninsegna, The Calling of
Peter and Andrew
1308-11
Tempera on wood, 43,5
x 46 cm
National Gallery of
Art,
Washington
Although adhering to
the
iconographic schemes of Byzantine and local art (clearly related to the
scene on the same subject in the thirteenth-century Altarpiece of St
Peter
in the Pinacoteca at Siena) this work pays greater attention to the
overall
composition.
The distribution of space is regular and the surroundings simple; the
figures
are felicitously placed between the transparency of the sea and the
gold
of the sky.
More of St.
Peter
More of St.
Andrew
Source: Web Gallery of Art