27/09/2022
We're delighted to announce that Reconstructing Duccio, The Passion Scenes from the Maestá – a reconstruction of the reverse of Duccio’s Maestá by artist Lesley Kerman – is now open to the public at Exeter Cathedral.
Curated by MA Curation graduate Imogen Haisman, the installation is on view from Tuesday 27th September - 27th October and is included in the standard admission price during the Cathedral’s daytime opening hours 9am – 5pm.
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The original painting was carried in a procession through the streets of Siena to the Cathedral at midday on the 9th June 1311. On the front of the altarpiece were painted the Virgin and Saints and on the reverse the Scenes of the Passion.
Lesley has made a full-scale reconstruction of these twenty-six scenes looking for a fresh starting point for figurative painting. Over the eighteen months that it took to make the reconstruction she discovered much about Duccio’s conception of space, use of colour, iconographic innovations and political values, which became the subject of the book Reconstructing Duccio.
The painting was exhibited in Wells Cathedral last year where it lit up the Cathedral and alerted viewers to the vibrant colour once present throughout English Cathedrals.
For more information visit: https://www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/whats-on/events/reconstructing-duccio/
Arts & Culture, University of Exeter University of Exeter Lesley Kerman Imogen Haisman
image: Lesley Kerman, Reconstructing Duccio, Wells Cathedral, 2021
