Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s painting known as “The Allegory of Good Government and Bad Government,” from 1339, is thought to be Europe’s first landscape painting since the fall of Rome, 900 years earlier.

The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350,” which debuted at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York before traveling to the National Gallery in London. In the beginning of Trecento Pictoriality: ...

On April 25, I was thrilled to deliver a TED Talk in Vancouver. I’m a lover of Italian art, and one of my favorite old masters is Ambrogio Lorenzetti. In 1339, Lorenzetti finished a series of frescos ...

Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Carmine Crucifix returns to Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena after Restoration Coordinated by MiC's Direzione Regionale Musei della Toscana with the Support of Friends of Florence ...

For a masterful analysis of the political philosophy embedded in this fresco, see Quentin Skinner, "Ambrogio Lorenzetti and the Portrayal of Virtuous Government" and "Ambrogio Lorenzetti on the Power ...

”Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”- Picasso. We recently returned from a whirlwind trip to Italy that touched on many of the unique sights this country has to offer. Late October weather ...

In the 1920s, the painter Fernand Léger saw a creative potential in cinema – in its ability to "isolate the object or the fragment of an object and to present it on the screen in close-ups of the ...

Siena has recently enjoyed a renaissance in the public estimation. This year, the blockbuster exhibition Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300-1350 (at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and London’s ...