Despite a healthy and engaged crowd, there was a definite hush among visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s magical exhibition “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350” last week. They gathered ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Carmine Crucifix returns to Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena ...

In the beginning of Trecento Pictoriality: Diagrammatic Painting in Late Medieval Italy, Karl Whittington invites us to step inside the Spanish Chapel, the chapter house of the Dominican friars of ...

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 ...

A new exhibition at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is brimming with opulent religious panel paintings, altarpieces, sculptures, textiles and metalworks from the Italian city of Siena.

Recorded in the Lira 389 account book of the Siena State Archive are repayments of loans made by the Commune of Siena between 1340 and 1342. This book provides new documentary evidence relating to ...

This paper focuses on the intricate allegory of Ambrogio Lorenzetti's "Good Government" mural in the council hall of the nine executive magistrates of the state of Siena in the city's Palazzo Pubblico ...

The glowing works from Siena, now at the Met, are revelatory for their emotional intensity and 24-karat beauty. Pietro Lorenzetti’s three-level “Tarlati Altarpiece” from about 1320 in the exhibition ...

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 ...

In historic appointment, Sarah Mullally will be the first female archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally has been named the next archbishop of Canterbury, a historic decision by the Church of England ...