Benvenuto di Giovanni
Benvenuto di Giovanni di Meo del Guasta is first documented as a young painter in 1453, when he worked alongside Vecchietta, who was probably his teacher, on the fresco decoration of the baptistry of Siena. In that same year he painted a now-lost work in the chapter house of the Compagnia di Santa Lucia in […]
The Big Review: 14th-Century Siena is Magnificent at the Met
Reuniting the surviving sections of the city’s altarpiece marvel is just the start of this important, beautifully staged show at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art 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 […]
Simone Martini influential in Gothic style
Simone Martini (1284-1344) was an Italian painter born in Siena. He was a major figure in the development of early Italian painting and greatly influenced the development of the International Gothic style. It is thought that Martini was a pupil of Duccio di Buoninsegna, the leading Sienese painter of his time. According to late Renaissance […]