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See the Breathtaking 14th-Century Sienese Artworks That Helped Set the Italian Renaissance in Motion. ... Art historians think Duccio may have trained some of the three younger painters on display.
The 1354 painting, Dwelling in Seclusion in the Summer Mountains, by the artist Wang Meng is now on view at the Freer Gallery through May 31. Freer Gallery of Art. In June 2011, a hanging scroll ...
A stolen 14th-century panel painting depicting the Virgin Mary with a child has been recovered at a Kentucky art museum, which agreed Monday to return the piece to Italian authorities. ...
The works depict religious scenes from the lives of Jesus, Mary and various saints and significantly expand Getty’s medieval ...
In 1951, donors gifted the Indianapolis Museum of Art with Madonna and Child, a 14th-century painting they’d purchased a few years earlier from an Italian art firm. Related: ...
In her presentation, Mary Edwards will discuss the impact of Greco-Roman art on the Italian artist, Altichiero, who painted frescoes in the late 14th century in Padua. Though Altichiero was painting ...
The Sienese painter Duccio completed his only signed work, Maestà (majesty), the grand altarpiece for his city’s cathedral, in the baking-hot summer of 1311. This was such a momentous public ...
The Art Newspaper's pick of the top shows to see around the world this month. ... November’s must-see exhibitions: Leonardo, Orphism and a beautiful exploration of 14th-century Siena .
Raoul Peck on photographer Ernest Cole, the death of Bill Dare, 14th-century art in Siena, Colum McCann's novel Twist. Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.