Duccio di Buoninsegna
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Duccio di Buoninsegna was a pioneering late 13th- and early 14th-century Italian painter from Siena, renowned for his refined, devotional panel paintings that helped shape the course of Western art.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Duccio di Buoninsegna canonical | 10 |
| Duccio | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3814559 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Duccio di Buoninsegna Context triple: [Kimbell Art Museum, hasWorkBy, Duccio di Buoninsegna]
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A.
Simone Martini
Simone Martini was a prominent 14th-century Italian painter of the Sienese School, renowned for his elegant Gothic style and influential altarpieces and frescoes.
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B.
Giotto
Giotto was a pioneering Italian painter and architect of the late Middle Ages whose naturalistic style helped lay the foundations for the Italian Renaissance.
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C.
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Domenico Ghirlandaio was a prominent Italian Renaissance painter of the Florentine school, renowned for his detailed fresco cycles and as the teacher of Michelangelo.
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D.
Luca Signorelli
Luca Signorelli was an Italian Renaissance painter renowned for his powerful, anatomically precise frescoes and dramatic compositions, particularly in the Orvieto Cathedral.
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E.
Masaccio
Masaccio was an early Italian Renaissance painter renowned for pioneering the use of linear perspective and naturalistic human figures, profoundly influencing Western art.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Duccio di Buoninsegna Target entity description: Duccio di Buoninsegna was a pioneering late 13th- and early 14th-century Italian painter from Siena, renowned for his refined, devotional panel paintings that helped shape the course of Western art.
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A.
Simone Martini
Simone Martini was a prominent 14th-century Italian painter of the Sienese School, renowned for his elegant Gothic style and influential altarpieces and frescoes.
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B.
Giotto
Giotto was a pioneering Italian painter and architect of the late Middle Ages whose naturalistic style helped lay the foundations for the Italian Renaissance.
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C.
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Domenico Ghirlandaio was a prominent Italian Renaissance painter of the Florentine school, renowned for his detailed fresco cycles and as the teacher of Michelangelo.
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D.
Luca Signorelli
Luca Signorelli was an Italian Renaissance painter renowned for his powerful, anatomically precise frescoes and dramatic compositions, particularly in the Orvieto Cathedral.
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E.
Masaccio
Masaccio was an early Italian Renaissance painter renowned for pioneering the use of linear perspective and naturalistic human figures, profoundly influencing Western art.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Italian painter
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Sienese painter ⓘ human ⓘ medieval artist ⓘ painter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEndTime | early 14th century ⓘ |
| activeYearsStartTime | late 13th century ⓘ |
| artisticPeriod |
Proto-Renaissance
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Trecento ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Siena ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Italy
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Republic of Siena ⓘ |
| familyName | Buoninsegna ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
altarpieces
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panel painting ⓘ |
| genre |
devotional painting
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religious art ⓘ |
| givenName |
Duccio
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linked to:
Duccio di Buoninsegna
|
| hasWorkInCollection |
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Siena ⓘ
linked to:
Museo dell’Opera del Duomo
National Gallery, London ⓘ
linked to:
National Gallery
Uffizi Gallery ⓘ |
| influenced |
Ambrogio Lorenzetti
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Pietro Lorenzetti ⓘ Sienese School of painting ⓘ
linked to:
Sienese school
Simone Martini ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Byzantine art
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Italo-Byzantine painting ⓘ |
| movement |
Gothic art
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Sienese School ⓘ
linked to:
Sienese school
|
| name | Duccio di Buoninsegna ⓘ |
| nationality | Italian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
development of Sienese painting
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large-scale altarpieces ⓘ refined devotional panel paintings ⓘ transition from Byzantine to more naturalistic painting in Italy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Madonna and Child (Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria)
ⓘ
Madonna and Child (Metropolitan Museum of Art) ⓘ
linked to:
Madonna and Child
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Angels (National Gallery, London) ⓘ Maestà ⓘ Rucellai Madonna ⓘ |
| occupation | painter ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Republic of Siena ⓘ |
| religion |
Catholicism
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linked to:
Roman Catholicism
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| style |
delicate color harmonies
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lyrical, devotional imagery ⓘ refined linear style ⓘ |
| subjectOf | scholarly studies on early Italian painting ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Florence
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Siena ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Referenced by (11)
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linked to: Duccio di Buoninsegna