This is the physical context, and the experience, that a museum cannot fully reproduce but can hope to evoke in bringing the magnificent paintings of late medieval Italy to life for modern viewers.

Its chief rival, Florence, emerged as the new superpower, its own art eclipsing Siena's. This new "blockbuster" at the National Gallery – featuring more than 100 exhibits including paintings ...

One of the most beautiful paintings in the Art Gallery of NSW is a little panel from the Sienese School attributed to Sano di ...

Siena’s art is currently stealing the global limelight ... in order not to lose money granted through Italy’s post-Covid-19 resilience credits. But Hémery is optimistic.

Ever since the virulently pro-Florentine 16th-century artist and writer Giorgio Vasari drastically downplayed Siena’s importance, art historians have been giving Florence the credit for starting ...

This fall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s highly anticipated “Siena: The Rise of Painting ... key ideas that preoccupied artists working in Italy in the following centuries.” ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art has agreed to transfer a manuscript leaf from a 13th-century choral book found in a church near Siena, Italy, back to its home country.

Almost equally sumptuous was “Giorgio Morandi: Time Suspended Part II,” a pop-up retrospective organized in New York by the Rome-based Mattia De Luca gallery. (Part I was held in Rome in 2022 ...

The magnet was a seductively titled new exhibition, “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I have fond ... a church in Arezzo, Italy, to a 7-inch carved ...

At the time one of the tallest bell towers in Italy ... of Sienese art and the bank’s historical archives. The collection opens to the public only twice a year when Siena hosts the famous ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Italy and the Cleveland Museum of Art have announced that ... book located at a church near Siena, will be returned to Italy.