This brief chapter of art history is often overlooked. Now, an exhibition in New York City makes a strong argument for the ...

A spectacular New York show traces an exquisite 14th-century flowering cut short by the Black Death ...

Sublime Sienese art at the Met, Pan-African art throughout Chicago, a 200th anniversary at the Brooklyn Museum: These extravaganzas are not to be missed.

Besides Duccio, its focus is on Ambrogio Lorenzetti, his brother Pietro, and Simone Martini. While Giotto gets more credit, ...

Here, there are few rushing to study to Duccio's enthroned Madonnas and Simone Martini's gold-leafed Annunciation scene. That should tell you all you need to know about the unglamorous-and ...

Simone Martini’s polyptych of five saints—including a regret-gauged Saint Peter and a defiant Saint Ansanus, the patron saint of Siena, who was decapitated by order of the Roman emperor ...