Met pay $45m for Duccio’s ‘Stroganoff’ Madonna

THE Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has acquired a devotional panel of the Madonna and Child by Duccio di Buoninsegna (active by 1278; died 1319) from the Stoclet family in Brussels.

With a price tag of around $45m (£25m), it is the most expensive object ever purchased by the museum…

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