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

With glittering paintings on every side, the National Gallery’s intense and bewitching new exhibition focuses on Siena’s ...

If you missed the show at the Met, you have a second chance at London’s National Gallery. “Siena: The Rise of Painting, ...

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

National Gallery, LondonThis epochal exhibition is full of works so intimate and expressive that the painters of a medieval Italian city 700 years ago suddenly seem close at hand.

Step into Siena. It’s the beginning of the 14th century in central Italy. A golden moment for art, a catalyst of change.

the Lorenzetti brothers and Simone Martini. The death has been announced of Bill Dare, the creator of Radio 4's The Now Show and Dead Ringers. He nurtured new writers and performers including ...

Before Florence there was Siena. In the 14th century the city was the center of artistic achievement, thanks to painters like Duccio and Simone Martini, who spun Byzantine and Gothic influences ...