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 […]
Andrea di Bartolo
Andrea di Bartolo was an Italian painter, active in Siena between 1389-1428. It is very probable that he was the master of Sano di Pietro. Painter and illuminator, he is first documented in 1389, in the Breve dell’Arte de’pittori senesi. He began his training in the workshop of his father, Bartolo di Fredi Cini. His […]