ABSTRACT
In 1912, an exhibition dedicated to Duccio di Buoninsegna and his school was organised in Siena. The main purposes of the exhibition were to make the works of Duccio better known, displaying less-known panels next to his famous masterpiece, and to present the production of Duccio's close and distant followers. The venue was the gallery of the Opera del Duomo, where Duccio's masterpiece was habitually on display, as it was too large to be moved. Alessandro Lisini, the director of the State Archive of Siena and former mayor, was supposed to serve as president of the exhibition committee but resigned, as he was in the meantime nominated director of the State Archive of Venice. The great majority of the pieces shown in 1912 came from churches, and only a minority belonged to private collectors, perhaps because a good number of the Sienese paintings still in private hands had been sold after the 1904 exhibitions of Siena and London.
