Duccio di Buoninsegna, (painter), Sienese, c. 1250/1255 - 1318/1319, The Nativity with the Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel, 1308-1311, tempera on single poplar panel, painted surface (left side image): 43 × 16 cm (16 15/16 × 6 5/16 in.), painted surface (center image): 43 × 43.9 cm (16 15/16 × 17 5/16 in.), painted surface (right side image): 43 × 16 cm (16 15/16 × 6 5/16 in.), overall (including original frame): 48 × 86.8 × 7.9 cm (18 7/8 × 34 3/16 × 3 1/8 in.), This panel is one of two owned by the National Gallery of Art from one of the most important monuments of Western painting: the towering, two-sided altarpiece known as the, Maestà, by, Duccio di Buoninsegna (Sienese, c. 1250/1255 - 1318/1319), . The, Maestà, dominated the main altar in Siena’s cathedral for nearly two centuries. The National Gallery of Art is the only institution in the United States to own two panels from this masterpiece., The Calling of the Apostles Peter and Andrew, is the second panel from the, Maestà

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