Duccio di Buoninsegna was the radical, poetic artist who guided a group of other artists working in Siena, Italy, in the 14th century. As the recent Siena exhibition in New York so beautifully ...

Andy Guérif adapts the Maestà of Duccio as a tableau vivant: the tale of the Christ’s Passion in twenty-six successive panels, from the arrival in Jerusalem to the road to Emmaus.

In its raw artistic power, Duccio’s “The Raising of Lazarus” connects to Aretha Franklin’s own storytelling masterpiece six centuries later. Duccio di Buoninsegna was the radical ...