Partisan, born in Cuneo, Piedmont, NW Italy. Strongly opposed to Fascism, he was one of the founders of the partisan group Italia libera (Free Italy), which would later become the Piedmontese Justice and freedom units. A CLN (National Liberation Committee) delegate, he signed the Barcellonette agreement with the French partisans in 1944. He was killed by the Nazi-Fascists.
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Duccio di Buoninsegna Madonna with Child / Madonna con Bambino - Tempera and gold on wood - Museo d'arte sacra della Val d'Arbia,
Buonconvento, near Siena
Madonna with Child and two Angels / Madonna con Bambino e due angeli (c. 1280) - Also known as the
Crevole Madonna / Madonna di Crevole - Tempera and gold
on wood - Museo dell'Opera della Metropolitana, Siena
Madonna with Child enthroned and six Angels / Madonna con Bambino in trono e sei angeli (c. 1285) - Also known as the
Rucellai
Madonna / Madonna Rucellai - Tempera and gold on wood - Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy, On deposit from Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy
Crucifix / Crocifisso - Tempera on
wood - Odescalchi Collection, Rome, formerly in the Castello Orsini at Bracciano
Madonna of the Franciscans / Madonna dei franciscani (c. 1300) - Tempera and gold on wood - Pinacoteca
Nazionale, Siena
Assumption, Burial and Crowning of the Virgin / Assunzione, Sepoltura e Incoronazione della Vergine - Stained glass window - Duomo, Siena
Maiestà (Madonna with Child
and six Angels / Madonna con Bambino e sei angeli) - Tempera and gold on wood - Kunstmuseum, Berne, Switzerland
Madonna and Child / Madonna con Bambino - Tempera and gold on wood -
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (formerly in the Stoclet Collection, Brussels, Belgium)
Madonna with Child and six Angels / Madonna con Bambino e sei angeli - Tempera and gold on wood
- Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia, Italy
Polyptych: Madonna and Child with Saints Augustine, Paul, Peter, Dominic, four angels and Christ blessing / Madonna con Bambino e con i santi
Agostino, Paolo, Pietro, Domenico, quattro angeli e Cristo benedicente (c. dieci patriarchi e profeti, e Cristo benedicente - Tempera and gold on wood - Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena
The
Surrender of the Castle of Giuncarico / La resa del castello di Giuncarico - Fresco - Palazzo pubblico, Siena
Maiestà with Episodes from Christ's Passion / Maiestà e Storie della Passione
di Cristo - Tempera and gold on wood - Duomo, Massa Marittima, Italy
Small Triptych: Flagellation of Christ; Deposizione nel Sepolcro - Tempera and gold on wood - Società di Esecutori
di Pie Deposizioni, Siena
Small Triptych: Madonna and Child with four Angels, Saints Dominic, Agnes and seven Prophets / Madonna con Bambino e con quattro angeli, i santi Domenico, Agnese, e
sette profeti - Tempera and gold on wood - The National Gallery, London, England
Portable Altarpiece: Crucifixion with Christ blessing; San Gregorio - Tempera and gold on wood - Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Small Triptych: Crucifixion with Angels; Stimmate di san Francesco e Madonna con Cristo in trono - Tempera and gold on wood - Royal Collections,
Hampton Court, near London, England
Maiestà (Madonna with Child enthroned and twenty Angels and nineteen Saints / Madonna con Bambino in trono e venti angeli e dicianove santi) - Tempera
and gold on wood - Museo dell'Opera della Metropolitana, Siena
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