CHAPTER IV 



SIENA 



Duccio Di BuoNiNSEGNA, who may be considered as Duccio, 

 occupying in Sienese history the place of Giotto in ^' ^^ ^'^^^ 

 Florence, has less observation of nature than his suc- 

 cessors ; but the ass and colt in the Siena altar-piece 

 show evidence of it, and in a painting of the Miraculous 

 Draught of Fishes (Mr. R. H. Benson), amongst the fish 

 in the sea round the boat is an octopus with seven legs 

 (and a very unpleasant countenance) and a crayfish. 

 He has tried to represent the fish, which are well differ- 

 entiated, not only in profile, but as they might be seen 

 in an aquarium, turning to look out through the glass. 



Bruno di Giovanni, in a St. Ursula coming to the 

 aid of Pisa (Pisa, Museo Civico), paints a number of 

 fish seen in the same way, but all broadside on. 



In the Campo Santo at Pisa the frescoes of the Pietroand 

 Tritimph of Death, stated by Vasari to be by Orcagna, Lorenzetti 

 but now attributed to the brothers Lorenzetti, are full of ^ i348(?) 

 well-observed animals — horses, mules, dogs, a hare, a 

 deer, a hind milked by a monk, and of birds a pheasant, 



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