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GUIDO OF See also:SIENA . The name of this See also:Italian painter is of considerable See also:interest in the See also:history of See also:art, on the ground that, if certain assumptions regarding him could be accepted as true, he would be entitled to See also:share with See also:Cimabue, or rather indeed to supersede him in, the See also:honour of having given the first onward impulse to the art of See also:painting. The See also:case stands thus. In the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of S. Domenico in Siena is a large painting of the " Virgin and See also:Child Enthroned," with six angels above, and in the See also:Benedictine See also:convent of the same See also:city is a triangular See also:pinnacle, once a portion of the same See also:composition, representing the Saviour in See also:benediction, with two angels; the entire See also:work was originally a See also:triptych, but is not so now. The See also:principal See also:section of this picture has a rhymed Latin inscription, giving the painter's name as Gu . . . o de Senis, with the date 1221: the genuineness of the inscription is not, however, See also:free from doubt, and especially it is maintained that the date really reads as 1281. In the See also:general treatment of the picture there is nothing to distinguish it particularly from other work of the same earlyperiod; but the heads of the Virgin and Child are indisputably very See also:superior, in natural See also:character and graceful dignity, to anything to be found anterior to Cimabue. The question there-fore arises, Are these heads really the work of a See also:man who painted in 1221 ? See also:Crowe and Cavalcaselle pronounce in the negative, concluding that the heads are repainted, and are, as they now stand, due to some artist of the 14th See also:century, perhaps Ugolino da Siena; thus the claims of Cimabue would remain undisturbed and in their pristine vigour. Beyond this, little is known of Guido da Siena. There is in the See also:Academy of Siena a picture assigned to him, a See also:half-figure of the " Virgin and Child," with two angels, dating probably between 1250 and 1300; also in the church of S. Bernardino in the same city a Madonna dated 1262. See also:Milanesi thinks that the work in S. Domenico is due to Guido Graziani, of whom no other See also:record remains earlier than 1278, when he is mentioned as the painter of a banner. Guido da Siena appears always to have painted on See also:panel, not in See also:fresco on the See also:wall. He has been termed, very dubiously, a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of Pietrolino, and the See also:master of "Diotisalvi," Mino da Turrita and Berlinghieri da See also:Lucca.
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