Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 — a golden generation brought back to life at the Met
A spectacular New York show traces an exquisite 14th-century flowering cut short by the Black Death ...
‘Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350’ Review: Monumental yet Intimate at the Met
1308-11), a two-sided work designed for the high altar of Siena Cathedral. It measures roughly 15 feet square and was ...
Smithsonian Magazine11d
See the Breathtaking 14th-Century Sienese Artworks That Helped Set the Italian Renaissance in Motion
This brief chapter of art history is often overlooked. Now, an exhibition in New York City makes a strong argument for the ...
ArtNews on MSN17d
A Blockbuster Met Exhibition Takes Visitors Back to Siena to Trace the Origins of European Painting
A tremendous poster greets visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Advertising the show of the season, "Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350," the poster features a detail from the ...
The Met’s magical show of Sienese painting is the must-see of the season
In “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350,” time paradoxically stands still and rushes forward.
The New York Times29d
Art Show of the Season? It’s These Centuries-Old Italian Paintings
He made bells for Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio and consulted on a Siena Cathedral expansion. On commission from another church, he carved and painted his only known wood sculpture, a near life ...
The Art Newspaper21d
The Big Review: 14th-century Siena is magnificent at the Met
Next spring, Siena will travel to the National Gallery ... for the opulence of the city’s late Medieval Italian cathedral, or else objects for prayer and showing off in the sun-drenched private ...