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Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena
The Pinacoteca Nazionale is a national museum in Siena, Tuscany, Italy. Inaugurated in 1932, it houses especially late medieval and Renaissance paintings from Italian artists. It is housed in the Brigidi and Buonsignori palaces in the city's center: the former, built in the 14th century, it is traditionally identified as the Pannocchieschi family's residence. The Palazzo Bichi-Buonsignori, although built in the 15th century, has a 19th-century neo-medieval façade based on the city's Palazzo Pubblico. The gallery has one of the largest collections of Sienese paintings with gold backgrounds from the 14th and 15th centuries.Mauro Civai, Enrico Toti, ''Siena cuore medievale d'Europa''. Alsaba Edizioni, 2004 page 103 Works in the gallery include: *Duccio di Buoninsegna's Polyptych N. 28 and ''Madonna of the Franciscans'' *Guido da Siena's ''St. Peter Enthroned'' *Simone Martini's ''Blessed Agostino Novello and His Miracles'' (c. 1330) *Ambrogio Lorenzetti's '' Annunciation'' (c. 13 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siena
Siena ( , ; lat, Sena Iulia) is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Siena. The city is historically linked to commercial and banking activities, having been a major banking center until the 13th and 14th centuries. Siena is also home to the oldest bank in the world, the Monte dei Paschi bank, which has been operating continuously since 1472. Several significant Renaissance painters worked and were born in Siena, among them Duccio, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Simone Martini and Sassetta, and influenced the course of Italian and European art. The University of Siena, originally called ''Studium Senese'', was founded in 1240, making it one of the oldest universities in continuous operation in the world. Siena was one of the most important cities in medieval Europe, and its historic centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. From January until the end of September of 2021 it had about 217,000 arrivals, with the largest numbers of foreign visitors coming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coronation Of The Virgin (Beccafumi)
''Coronation of the Virgin'' is an oil on canvas painting by Domenico Beccafumi, executed ''c.'' 1539, now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale (Siena), Pinacoteca nazionale in Siena. Commissioned by the monks of Ognissanti in Siena, it was moved to Santo Spirito, Siena, Santo Spirito church after that church was destroyed and was only recently moved to the gallery. Anna Maria Francini Ciaranfi, Beccafumi, Sadea Editore/Sansoni, Firenze 1967. Unusually for the subject, its lower register shows not the apostles but three saints and pope, namely Mary Magdalene, Anthony of Padua, Pope Gregory XI and Catherine of Alexandria. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madonna And Child With St Michael And St Bernardino
''Madonna and Child with St Michael and St Bernardino'' is a 1476 tempera and gold on panel triptych by Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi, now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Siena. To the left is St Michael, whilst to the right is Bernardino of Siena Bernardino of Siena, OFM (8 September 138020 May 1444), also known as Bernardine, was an Italian priest and Franciscan missionary preacher in Italy. He was a systematizer of Scholastic economics. His preaching, his book burnings, and his " bon .... Daniel Arasse (preface by Roland Recht), Saint Bernardin de Sienne.Entre dévotion et culture : fonctions de l'image religieuse au xve siècle, Paris, Hazan, 2014, 304 p., 14 x 21 cm ({{ISBN, 978-2-7541-0255-1) References 1476 paintings Paintings of the Madonna and Child Paintings depicting Michael (archangel) Paintings of Bernardino of Siena Paintings in the Pinacoteca Nazionale (Siena) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neroccio Di Bartolomeo De' Landi
Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi (1447–1500) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the early-Renaissance or Quattrocento period in Siena. He was a student of Vecchietta, and then he shared a workshop with Francesco di Giorgio from 1468. He painted ''Scenes from the life of St Benedict'', now in the Uffizi, probably in collaboration with di Giorgio, and ''Madonna and Child between Saint Jerome and Saint Bernard'', which is in the Pinacoteca Nazionale of Siena. In 1472 he painted an ''Assumption'' for the abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, and in 1475 he created a statue of Saint Catherine of Siena for the Sienese church dedicated to her. He separated from di Giorgio in 1475. In 1476, he painted ''Madonna and Child with St Michael and St Bernardino'', a triptych now located in the Pinacoteca Nazionale of Siena.Gertrude Coor, Neroccio de' Landi 1447-1500, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1961, 235 p., 30 x 23 cm. In 1483, he designed the ''Hellespontine Sybil'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madonna Of Humility
Madonna of humility refers to artistic portrayals of the Virgin Mary which depict her sitting on the ground, or upon a low cushion. She may be holding the Christ Child in her lap. The term Virgin of humility is also used to refer to this style of depiction. The iconography originated in the 14th century, and was most common in that and the following century. History and development Humility is a virtue extolled by Saint Francis of Assisi, and this style of image was associated with Franciscan piety, although it was not the creation of the Franciscans, since the artist first associated with the image, Simone Martini, had ties with the Dominicans and may have created the image for them. The word humility derives from the Latin ''humus'', meaning earth or ground. The earliest known painting of this type dates to 1346 and is at the ''Museo Nazionale'' in Palermo. It represents a Madonna seated on a small cushion just above the ground. The Christ Child partially looks at the viewer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neroccio Di Bartolomeo
Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi (1447–1500) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the early-Renaissance or Quattrocento period in Siena. He was a student of Vecchietta, and then he shared a workshop with Francesco di Giorgio from 1468. He painted ''Scenes from the life of St Benedict'', now in the Uffizi, probably in collaboration with di Giorgio, and ''Madonna and Child between Saint Jerome and Saint Bernard'', which is in the Pinacoteca Nazionale of Siena. In 1472 he painted an ''Assumption'' for the abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, and in 1475 he created a statue of Saint Catherine of Siena for the Sienese church dedicated to her. He separated from di Giorgio in 1475. In 1476, he painted ''Madonna and Child with St Michael and St Bernardino'', a triptych now located in the Pinacoteca Nazionale of Siena.Gertrude Coor, Neroccio de' Landi 1447-1500, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1961, 235 p., 30 x 23 cm. In 1483, he designed the ''Hellespontine Sybil'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matteo Di Giovanni
Matteo di Giovanni (c. 1430 – 1495) was an Italian Renaissance artist from the Sienese School. Biography Matteo di Giovanni di Bartolo was born in Borgo Sansepolcro around 1430. His family relocated to Siena and he is firmly associated with the art of that city. Matteo was twice married—first in 1463 to a wealthy noble woman and, after her death, to a rich widow, who made it possible for Matteo to buy real estate and by whom he fathered many children. Documentation concerning the early phases of Matteo's life and career as an artist is scanty and nothing is recorded about his apprenticeship. Left to conjecture, we might imagine him as having been trained in the workshop of sculptor/painter Lorenzo di Pietro, better known as Vecchietta but he clearly was influenced by Stefano di Giovanni, called Sassetta and Domenico di Bartolo. The miniaturist Girolamo da Cremona and the Florentine painter Antonio del Pollaiuolo also seemed to have contributed to Matteo's distinctive styl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Di Giorgio Martini
Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1439–1501) was an Italian architect, engineer, painter, sculptor, and writer. As a painter, he belonged to the Sienese School. He was considered a visionary architectural theorist—in Nikolaus Pevsner's terms: "one of the most interesting :Italian architects, later Quattrocento architects". As a military engineer, he executed architectural designs and sculptural projects and built almost seventy fortifications for the Federico da Montefeltro, Federico da Montefeltro, Count (later Duke) of Urbino, building city walls and early examples of Star fort, star-shaped fortifications. Born in Siena, he apprenticed as a painter with Vecchietta. In panels painted for ''Cassone, cassoni'' he departed from the traditional representations of joyful wedding processions in frieze-like formulas to express visions of ideal, symmetrical, vast and all but empty urban spaces rendered in perspective (graphical), perspective. He composed an architectural treatis''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taddeo Di Bartolo
Taddeo di Bartolo (c. 1363 – 26 August 1422), also known as Taddeo Bartoli, was an Italian painter of the Sienese School during the early Renaissance. He is among the artists profiled in Vasari's biographies of artists or ''Vite''. Vasari claims he is the uncle of Domenico di Bartolo. Biography Taddeo di Bartolo was born in Siena. The exact year of his birth is unknown, but it’s been suspected to be between 1363-65. He was the son of a certain Bartolo di Maestro Mino, a barber, and not of the painter Bartolo di Fredi, as Vasari believed, and therefore not the brother of Andrea di Bartolo. Around 1389 he entered the Sienese Guild of artists, where he mastered the art of painting among his Sienese colleagues. In 1389 Taddeo traveled to Collegarli, the San Miniato al Tedesco hills, and Pisa. The painting of ''The Virgin and Child Enthroned'', signed and dated in 1390 and created in the church of San Paolo in Pisa, is one of Taddeo’s first documented works. In 1393, Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domenico Di Bartolo
Domenico di Bartolo (birth name Domenico Ghezzi), born in Asciano, Siena, was a Sienese painter who became active during the early Renaissance period. He was inaccurately named by the famous painter, writer and historian Giorgio Vasari as the nephew of well-reputed Italian artist Taddeo di Bartolo, who is featured in Vasari's ''Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects''. By the early 1400s, Domenico di Bartolo was one of Siena's artists most influenced by the new Florentine style of painting. During the time that he was active and working, Domenico was the only Sienese painter to have received commissions by clients in Florence. Domenico was also employed by Lorenzo Vecchietta, otherwise referred to as Lorenzo di Pietro, to work alongside him for the fresco ''The Care of the Sick'', which is today considered a masterpiece of the Pilgrim's Hall in the hospital Santa Maria della Scala (Siena). Domenico first surfaced into the world of early Renaissance art in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sassetta
''For the village near Livorno, see Sassetta, Tuscany'' Stefano di Giovanni di Consolo, known as il Sassetta (ca.1392–1450 or 1451) was an Tuscan painter of the Renaissance, and a significant figure of the Sienese School.Judy Metro, ''Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century''. National Gallery of Art, Oxford University Press: Oxford, New York, 2003. p. 621 While working within the Sienese tradition, he innovated the style by introducing elements derived from the decorative Gothic style and the realism of contemporary Florentine innovators as Masaccio.Marco Torriti. "Sassetta." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 9 Mar. 2016 Life and Works The name Sassetta has been associated with him, mistakenly, only since the 18th century but is now generally used for this artist. The date and birthplace of Sassetta are not known. Some say he was born in Siena although there is also a hypothesis that he was born in Cortona. His father, Giovanni, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Lorenzetti
Pietro Lorenzetti (; – 1348) or Pietro Laurati was an Italian painter, active between c. 1306 and 1345. Together with his younger brother Ambrogio, he introduced naturalism into Sienese art. In their artistry and experiments with three-dimensional and spatial arrangements, the brothers foreshadowed the art of the Renaissance. Overview Little is known of Lorenzetti's life other than that he was (putatively) born in Siena in the late 13th century (c. 1280/90), died there (possibly) in 1348 a victim of the first Black Death pandemic then devastating Europe, and had a younger brother, Ambrogio, also an artist. That the men were brothers was unknown to Vasari because he misread Pietro's surname on a painting in Pistoia's church of San Francesco as "Laurati". Thus the kinship between the artists was missed. Pietro worked in Assisi, Florence, Pistoia, Cortona, and Siena, although the precise chronology is unknown. His work suggests the influence of Duccio (in whose studio he may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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