Maestà
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About this painting
You could once have felt the jewels. Siena's own description lists what is set into the plaster besides paint — inserts of crystal, of glass, of parchment and of metal leaf, worked in to make the Virgin's court materially real. She is enthroned under a rich canopy as protectress of the city, on the north wall of the room where the government met. A fragmentary inscription recovered in the nineteenth century dates it 1315. Simone came back and reworked it in 1321.
Sources: Museo Civico di Siena, Palazzo Pubblico, 'Maestà'; object and artist pages read 2026-08-27.
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 4,135 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.