The scene is set: Golden panels, flickering under the spotlight, shine even brighter than they once did in the homes and churches of late medieval Italy. The gilded surfaces, adorned with virtuoso ...

While the contemporary art tribe was in London for Frieze Week, I found myself magnetically drawn to a much earlier chapter of art history here in New York. The magnet was a seductively titled new ...

At the entrance to "Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350," an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art on view through Jan. 25, hangs a small Byzantine icon of the Virgin and Child from ...

AS SOON AS it was completed, Duccio di Buoninsegna’s Maestà, ca. 1308–11, was carried triumphantly through the crowded streets of Siena to the city’s cathedral, where it served as the high altarpiece ...

"Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350” is more than just a pre-history of the Italian Renaissance. Duccio di Buoninsegna, The Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and Aurea, and Patriarchs and ...

If you think that Italy’s great cultural awakening began in 15th-century Florence, think again. That is what next year’s banner exhibition at the National Gallery will encourage us to do when it ...

‘I Maestri del Colore’ hanno dipinto molto e benissimo nella nostra città dove nei secoli hanno fatto grande scuola: Duccio, Simone Martini, i fratelli Lorenzetti, gli altri che, con i loro stili e le ...

A remarkable exhibition on the painter Duccio, including some panels of his Maesta altarpiece made for the local cathedral, has opened in Siena. The show, the first to be mounted in 90 years on the ...

In 1308, the Italian painter Duccio di Buoninsegna put an altarpiece together consisting of several separate paintings for the city of Sienna. Aside from a large front panel depicting the Madonna and ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- The Metropolitan Museum confirmed Wednesday that it had shelled out multi-millions for a small "Madonna and Child" by Renaissance master Duccio di Buoninsegna. Harold Holzer ...