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Italy-Tuscanythe Casale del Duccio label has been created to celebrate Duccio da Boninsegna a well famous senese painter. His first written report about him is dated back to 1278 when he works on the front page of the registry of the “Comune di Siena” at the Biccherna office.
Duccio has a brother, Bonaventura, that will be the father of Signa the painter and his birth is reported around 1255. His father is a Buoninsegna and his birth is located in San Donato.

Other written news are coming from the first contract dated 15th of april 1285 for a paint commissioned by the “Compagnia dei Laudesi” in Santa Maria Novella in Florence for a large altar paint table. In the month of October of the same year the painter is paid another 8 “soldi” for another front page of the Biccherna registry and this will continue in 1286- 91 - 92- 94 and 95.
His fame as artist is comparable to the fame as a turbulent citizen that is sanctioned by a fine in 1302. The 5th of December of the same year is receiving 48 liras from the Comune di Siena for another painted table of the altar of the internal chapel.
In 1295 he got fined again because he refuse to submit himself to the “Capitano del Popolo” and in 1302 he is captured after diserting the Maremma war.

In 1304 he is buying a vineyard in Castagneto in the Province of Siena and on the 9th of October 1308 he got the job to paint the “Maestà” (Majesty) that was finished in 1311 and posed in the Duomo di Siena with a magnificent ceremony on the 9th of June of the same year.

Till the 1318 he lives in San Quirico close to Porta Stalloreggi where he has also his studio that is less than 2 miles away from Podere Belvedere, today property of the Tenuta Vitanza estate, where popular gossip was indicating was living the lady that became his wife Taviana. Here started their love story that will bring them to live several happy years together with their seven sons.

The date of his death is located between 1318 and 1319 even if a document written by his sons tells he is still alive in 1320. He leaves his wife Taviana and seven sons two of with will follows the father steps becoming painters.

Due to the fact we have recognized that their story is somehow similar to ours, Tenuta Vitanza wants to honor this great man from the Province of Siena dedicating to him the line of Chianti wine.