CHAPTER II

.—SIENA

GENERAL WORKS:

Langton Douglas. _A History of Siena._ New York, 1902. Ferdinand Schevill. _Siena, the Story of a Mediæval Commune_, New York, 1909. Edmund G. Gardiner. _The Story of Siena and San Gemignano_, London, 1902. William Heywood and Lucy Olcott. _Guide to Siena, History and Art_, London, 1903.

PAINTING, THE SCHOOL.

Emil Jacobsen. _Sienesische Meister des Trecento in der Gemälde Galerie zu Siena_, Strassburg, 1907; _Das Quattrocento in Siena_, Strassburg, 1908; _Sodoma und das Cinquecento in Siena_, Strassburg, 1910; all very valuable for illustrations.

Venturi, _Storia dell’ Arte Italiana_, Vols. V and VII.

Bernard Berenson, _Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance_, New York and London, 1909.

C. Ricci, _Il Palazzo Pubblico di Siena e la Mostra d’Antica Arte Senese_, Bergamo, 1904, offers a good and inexpensive survey of Sienese handicraft in general.

SIENESE PICTURES IN THE UNITED STATES. Consult the illustrated catalogues of the Fogg Museum, Harvard; and of the Jarves Collection, Yale. Also many special articles in _Art in America_, especially the series in Vol. VIII-IX, by F. Mason Perkins, _Some Sienese Paintings in American Collections_.

Footnote 15:

The fact that the Madonna of the Palazzo Pubblico had been much repainted in Duccio’s time not unnaturally threw Milanesi and other critics off the track. But the date is entirely genuine (see _C. & C._ [Douglas] Vol. I, p. 162, note 1*; and E. Jacobsen, _Das Trecento_, p. 18). The latter writes, “The signature and date are genuine. There is no tenable ground for doubting them.”

I have satisfied myself by close inspection that such is the case, and the half dozen or so other panels associated with this Madonna stylistically all seem to belong to the first half of the 13th century.

Footnote 16:

Sirén, _Burlington Magazine_, XXXII (1918) p. 45, ascribes this panel to Cavallini. Berenson in _Dedalo_, Vol. II, fasc. v, allots it to Constantinople at the end of the 12th century. Neither view is even plausible to me.

Footnote 17:

_Duccio._ A. Lisini, _Notizie di Duccio_ &c. Siena, 1898. Curt Weigelt, _Duccio di Buoninsegna_, Leipzig, 1911, the standard monograph, well illustrated.

Footnote 18:

The whole matter of the Rucellai Madonna is well discussed by Douglas in his edition of _C. & C._, Vol. I. Appendix to