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Article: Met acquires rare Duccio.(Artworld)(Metropolitan Museum of Art )(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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While most art institutions are pinching pennies these days, the Metropolitan Museum of Art recently splurged on a masterpiece by the Italian painter Duccio di Buoninsegna (active 1278-1319). It has been widely reported in the press that the museum spent more than $45 million to purchase the tempera- and gold-on-wood Madonna and Child, also known as the Stroganoff Madonna (ca. 1300), named after its first recorded owner, Count Grigorii Stroganoff, who died in 1910. In announcing the museum's most expensive acquisition in its history, director Philippe de Montebello stressed the rarity and importance of the 8-by-10-inch work, which he says will quickly become one of the ...