A spectacular New York show traces an exquisite 14th-century flowering cut short by the Black Death ...
1308-11), a two-sided work designed for the high altar of Siena Cathedral. It measures roughly 15 feet square and was ...
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 ...
In “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350,” time paradoxically stands still and rushes forward.
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 ...
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 ...