A key exhibit in Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300‒1350 at the National Gallery, is a ‘Head of Christ’ by Lando di Pietro, which is split in two. Paintings by some of the greatest Italian artists of ...

One Duccio painting here dating from 1290-1300 sees "a sweet yet sorrowful Virgin" tilting her head as "a perky Christ Child tugs at her veil and involuntarily caresses her wrist" with his toes.

I had been looking forward to the National Gallery's exhibition Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 for several ...

Duccio di Buoninsegna was the radical, poetic artist who guided a group of other artists working in Siena, Italy, in the 14th century. As the recent Siena exhibition in New York so beautifully ...

It was women who drove his art to its heights – and women who bore the brunt of his callousness… The painter’s portraits reveal less a tortured loner than a man who thrived in company. In the 14th ...

In its raw artistic power, Duccio’s “The Raising of Lazarus” connects to Aretha Franklin’s own storytelling masterpiece six centuries later. Duccio di Buoninsegna was the radical, poetic ...