The glory days of Siena came to an end, like so many other good things, with the Black Death in 1348, and it never really recovered until the twentieth century. But before the plague, it was a ...

I had been looking forward to the National Gallery’s exhibition Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 for several reasons. First, it was many years in the making. Its curator, Professor Emerita ...

The glowing works from Siena, now at the Met, are revelatory for their emotional intensity and 24-karat beauty. Pietro Lorenzetti’s three-level “Tarlati Altarpiece” from about 1320 in the exhibition ...

Pietro Lorenzetti, Italian, active Siena 1320-1344, Tarlati altarpiece, also known as the Pieve altarpiece, circa 1320. Tempera and gold on panel. (Angelo Latronico and Foto Studio Lensini Siena/Santa ...

In the early 1300s, the Tuscan hilltop city of Siena lived through a great period of prosperity, said Charlotte Higgins in The Guardian. Its economic, military and political strength provided the ...