In the early 1300s, the Tuscan hilltop city of Siena lived through a great period ... have been brought together here. You follow the scenes "like a comic strip", as Jesus "defeats the devil ...

Nonetheless, these scenes are closely observed ... 1308-11), a two-sided work designed for the high altar of Siena Cathedral.

The Piazza del Campo, Siena’s main square, is surely the most theatrical public space in the whole of Tuscany.

After Simone departed for Avignon in the mid 1330s, Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti emerged from his shadow to dominate Siena’s artistic scene. Pietro had worked itinerantly in Umbria and Tuscany, ...

The figures crowding Duccio’s Triptych: Crucifixion and other Scenes (circa 1302-08), including ... a figure of particular reverence in Siena; there’s barely an image here in which she doesn ...