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==Style== Unlike [[Florentine School|Florentine art]], Sienese art opted for a more decorative style and rich colors, with "thinner, elegant, and courtly figures".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Nici|first1=John B.|title=AP Art History|date=2008|publisher=Barron's Educational Series|isbn=9781438080536|page=[https://archive.org/details/barronsaparthist0000nici/page/232 232]|url=https://archive.org/details/barronsaparthist0000nici|url-access=registration|access-date=28 January 2018}}</ref> It also has "a mystical streak...characterized by a common focus on miraculous events, with less attention to proportions, distortions of time and place, and often dreamlike coloration".<ref name="nyt"/> Sienese painters did not paint portraits, allegories, or classical myths.<ref name="ft">{{cite news|last1=Spence|first1=Rachel|title=Early Renaissance art in Siena|url=https://www.ft.com/content/4ae42b4c-48da-11df-8af4-00144feab49a |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/4ae42b4c-48da-11df-8af4-00144feab49a |archive-date=2022-12-10 |url-access=subscription|access-date=28 January 2018|work=Financial Times|date=16 April 2010}}</ref> [[Image:Duccio Maestà.jpg|right|thumb|400px|''[[Maestà_(Duccio)|Maestà]]'' by Duccio (1308–11) [[Tempera]] on wood, 214 x 412 cm Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena]]
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