# MASTER of Città di Castello [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Profession: painter - School: Italian ## Biography Italian painter. He is named after the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints \(Pinacoteca Comunale, Città di Castello\), which may derive from a lost composition by Duccio di Buoninsegna. The painting is the earliest work of a corpus that also includes a dismembered polyptych of the Virgin and Child \(Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena\) and SS Augustine, Paul, Peter and Anthony Abbot \(Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena\); a polyptych of the Virgin and Child with SS Francis, John the Evangelist, Stephen and Chiara \(Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena\); and a third altarpiece composed of a Virgin and Child \(Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen\), St Peter and St John the Baptist \(Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven\), as well as a St Francis \(private collection\). A Virgin and Child in Detroit \(Institute of Art, Detroit\) is a closely related shop work. Although inclined to borrow heavily from Duccio and perhaps also from Segna di Bonaventura and Ugolino di Nerio, the Master had a distinctive style rooted in late 13th-century Sienese painting, and his works continued to reflect these origins well into the second decade of the 14th century. He was an interesting colourist, with a preference for subtle variations and pale hues, but his work had little impact on a younger generation in Siena. ## Related artworks - [Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John the Evangelist]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()