Tracce di una tavola senese a Torino: la lunetta affrescata del convento di San Domenico di Torino

The Madonna with Child, Angels and a female Donor depicted in a lunette in the cloister of the convent church of San Domenico in Turin – one of the rare examples of 14th century monumental painting of the city – shows close contacts with the new formal solutions developed in Siena by Duccio di Buoninsegna. Through a new iconographical and formal investigation, this fresco allows on the one hand to shed new light on 14th century painting in Piedmont, whose characteristics are of difficult reconstruction due to the considerable amount of losses, and perhaps to have a glimpse into the taste of private patrons, of which, with the sole exception of the Savoy court, no documentation survives. On the other hand, it enables to verify once again the fortune of the innovations introduced by the Sienese Gothic school of painting, and in particular those emerging from the work of Duccio di Buoninsegna and his followers, perhaps known through Ligurian mediation.