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 […]