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

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

A century and a half before the Florentine flowering of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, another Tuscan city wondrous for ...

This solid gold exhibition celebrates the astonishing period 1300-1350 in the Italian city of Siena, which matched opulence, ...

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

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

Every issue we highlight one great cultural event–and the watch to wear to be impeccably on time. This month, a blockbuster ...

The most human episode in the life of Christ is the depiction by Simone Martini of Christ Discovered in the Temple, in which a cross St Joseph gestures towards a reproachful Virgin. Christ ...

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

The Booker and Oscar-nominated writer Colum McCann discusses his thrilling new novel Twist, a dive in to the dark depths of the modern human condition set on board a ship repairing the fragile cables ...