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.

(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 ...

The exhibition repositions Siena as playing a central role in the evolution of painting as the impact of Sienese art can be traced as far as England, France and Bohemia as it helped shift European ...

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 ...

The show is focused mostly on the work of four artists: Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti; Simone Martini; and, "first and foremost", Duccio di Buoninsegna, a polymath whose "towering legacy would ...

Duccio di Buoninsegna and Pietro Lorenzetti certainly understood the power of a Mary robed in royal blue. But, as with the wearers of Akris’s pieces, it’s always Mary’s identity one is ...