A key exhibit in Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300‒1350 at the National Gallery, is a ‘Head of Christ’ by Lando di Pietro, which is split in two. Paintings by some of the greatest Italian artists of ...

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

Besides Duccio, its focus is on Ambrogio Lorenzetti, his brother Pietro, and Simone Martini. While Giotto gets more credit, ...

That is so, as what this exhibition principally reveals is the immense creative achievement of Christendom and the evolving ...

So the city was open to all manner of artistic influences ... charge and the keen sense of narrative technique in the paintings. Duccio’s great Maesta, the biggest altarpiece in Europe ...

At the Musée du Louvre, a new show on the Florentine painter Cimabue features panel paintings by Duccio, the great Sienese artist of the early Renaissance. But there is also a great deal ...

In the 14th century, Duccio and others developed ways of painting that had never been seen before ... accompanied by the Signori of the Nine [the governing council] and all the officials of the ...