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See the Breathtaking 14th-Century Sienese Artworks That Helped Set the Italian Renaissance in Motion
A new exhibition at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is brimming with opulent religious panel paintings, ...
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Duccio di Buoninsegna
A sweeping show focuses on the Tuscan city’s pivotal role in Renaissance art, where painters such as Duccio and Simone Martini depicted religious scenes in vibrant detail and with stirring emotional ...
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The Big Review: 14th-century Siena is magnificent at the Met
The Sienese painter Duccio completed his only signed work, Maestà (majesty), the grand altarpiece for his city’s cathedral, in the baking-hot summer of 1311. This was such a momentous public ...
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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 ...