Until 31 July and from 18 August to 18 October 2023, the Cathedral of Siena is unveiling its inlaid marble floor, one of Italy's most astonishing artistic creations, but so fragile that it usually ...

Detail of “The She-Wolf of Siena” in the mosaic floor of the cathedral (photo via Getty Images) The drawings supplied for the floor’s 56 panels were designed by artists who were all from ...

The cathedral of Siena, in Italy’s Tuscany region, is renowned for its spectacular 14th-century mosaic floor. But due to its fragility, the masterpiece is protected from visitor foot traffic by ...

Ambrogio’s frescoes lined Palazzo Pubblico. Even Florentine Giorgio Vasari called Siena Cathedral’s marble mosaic floor “the most magnificent ever made”. By the time Vasari wrote ...

Siena's cathedral was briefly shuttered by a quake on Wednesday. Photo by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP) An earthquake in the Italian region of Tuscany sparked the brief evacuation of the cathedral and closure ...

Majestic and richly ornate, Santa Maria Assunta Cathedral is a jewel of Italian Gothic architecture. Its black and white exterior recalls the legend of Siena's origins. The interior, meanwhile ...

The Sienese painter Duccio completed his only signed work, Maestà (majesty), the grand altarpiece for his city’s cathedral ... a moment when the people of Siena lived through something that ...