Deep blue. Aquamarine. Gold and red.
Filmic painted images of the residents of Siena.
La Maestà. Enthroned Madonna and Child,
surrounded by gold haloed Angels and Saints.
Around them, on twenty-two other panels,
the Prophets, the life of Jesus.
On the other side, background, foreground,
linked in the array of painted panels.
Scenes from The Passion.

"Oh Holy Mother of God, grant Peace to Siena
and life to Duccio who painted you thus"

[ Paths of Memory and Painting]
[when the foreground meets the background]