This new "blockbuster" at the National Gallery – featuring more than 100 exhibits including paintings, manuscripts and ...

F or the best part of a year, I worked as a gardener at a private estate in Val d'Orcia, a region of Tuscany that feels much ...

A century and a half before the Florentine flowering of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, another Tuscan city wondrous for ...

The Piazza del Campo, Siena’s main square, is surely the most theatrical public space in the whole of Tuscany.

The exhibition reunites key pieces, including The Annunciation (The National Gallery, London), Christ and the Woman of ...

In the space of 100 years, Siena's artists redefined painting as an art form and laid the foundations for Renaissance.

Step into Siena. It’s the beginning of the 14th century in central Italy. A golden moment for art, a catalyst of change. Artists Duccio, Simone Martini and the brothers Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti ...

There’s a reassuring sense that even in the 14th century, there was a lot going on well outside the mainstream ...

This solid gold exhibition celebrates the astonishing period 1300-1350 in the Italian city of Siena, which matched opulence, spirituality and extravagance ...

Christ, with folded arms, is the very image of a stubborn adolescent. Then there are the panels by Ambrogio Lorenzetti depicting the life of St Nicholas, a storyteller who uses simultaneity and ...

Duccio’s The Calling of the Apostles Peter and Andrew, 1308-1311 (detail) - National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC ...

With glittering paintings on every side, the National Gallery’s intense and bewitching new exhibition focuses on Siena’s medieval golden age, when the Tuscan city was a banking centre and important ...