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

Siena: The Rise of Painting at the National Gallery review: 'a blockbuster of a show' - 5/5 This solid gold exhibition ...

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

Siena’s art is currently stealing the global limelight. The blockbuster exhibition Siena: the Rise of Painting 1300-1350 brought masterpieces from the city’s golden age to the Metropolitan ...

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

The deepest pleasure of Siena’s drawings was giving up the search for what generated them and getting lost in the intricacies of the composition. In his essay on the history of lines [1], ...

Last year, a show of 700-year-old Italian religious paintings electrified New York. Now it’s heading for the National Gallery ...

Ever since the virulently pro-Florentine 16th-century artist and writer Giorgio Vasari drastically downplayed Siena’s importance, art historians have been giving Florence the credit for starting ...

By Michael Prodger On 9 June 1311, the people of Siena witnessed the most extraordinary sight they ... a thing so otherworldly and unexpected that it was simultaneously a work of art the like of which ...

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

Raoul Peck on photographer Ernest Cole, the death of Bill Dare, 14th-century art in Siena, Colum McCann's novel Twist ...