However, apart from his perfect taste in colour and in style, Duccio excelled in the essentially Greek elegance of his portrayal of ordinary life.

然而，除了他对于色彩和型式的完美感受，杜奇欧也善于从日常生活的描写中突显出希腊人的优雅。

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But Duccio chose to show the very human and emotional interaction between Mary and Jesus.

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The Italian artist Duccio painted his "Madonna and Child" in thirteen hundred.

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Duccio trained alongside his Florentine contemporary, Giotto, in the workshop of Cimabue, the most famous Italian painter of his time.

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For Berenson, looking at a picture was always an emotional experience, a new discovery and only then to be placed in the continuum of Italian Renaissance painting from Duccio, Masaccio and Giotto through Botticelli, Titian, Leonardo and Michelangelo.

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Its first great painter, Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-1319), would have witnessed the emergence of the Nine: a civic democracy in which Siena, a rich merchant city-state, was ruled by nine elected citizens (aristocrats and lawyers were barred from standing for election).

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