This summer visitors to Siena Cathedral can witness a sight normally hidden from view: what Vasari called the “most beautiful ...

Duccio di Buoninsegna has been featured in articles for ARTFORUM, The Washington Post and Studio International. The most recent article is Wining and Dining with Duccio written for Apollo in May 2025.

Maesta, Duccio di Buoninsegna, detail of the reconstruction of the front of the altarpiece. Only after all this did the painter finally pick up his brushes.

On June 9, 1311 the largest and most magnificent altar panel ever created was revealed to an excited crowd which gathered outside the workshop of the artist Duccio di Buoninsegna at the top of via ...

Duccio di Buoninsegna: the life and major works of the father of the 14th-century Sienese school. Duccio di Buoninsegna (Siena, c. 1255 - 1318) is one of the most significant and influential painters ...

(REVIEW) With glittering treasures from Siena’s golden age at every turn, this outstanding exhibition at The National Gallery in London is the first outside of continental Europe to consider the major ...

Duccio di Buoninsegna was the radical, poetic artist who guided a group of other artists working in Siena, Italy, in the 14th century.

The exhibition Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 comes to us from the Met in New York, where it was hailed as, “a visual event of pure 24-karat gold,” brings together around 100 important works ...

Maestà by Duccio di Buoninsegna One of the exhibition’s centrepieces is the partial reassembly of Duccio’s Maestà, painted between 1307 and 1311 for the high altar of Siena Cathedral. This monumental, ...

This was the great leap forward (in terms of the Western canon of art) which is explored by this exhibition, as the four key artists whose work is highlighted – Duccio di Buoninsegna, Simone Martini ...

In the early 1300s, the Tuscan hilltop city of Siena lived through a great period of prosperity, said Charlotte Higgins in The Guardian. Its economic, military and political strength provided the ...