As a restorer who specialized in late medieval and early Renaissance paintings from Italy, he was in intimate touch with the ...

In 1972, Aretha Franklin performed “Mary, Don’t You Weep” with a gospel choir at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. “We’re going to review the story of two sisters called Mary ...

Henry Clay Frick, aggressive in art collecting as well as business, acquired many of the masterpieces of the museum, whose ...

The Frick has retained its superb interstitial character as a small-scale museum. It is a museum located largely in a house, ...

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

The National Gallery presents another blockbuster exhibition in celebration of its 200th anniversary exploring the vibrant new way of painting that developed in early 14th century Siena. The rigidity ...

An excited crowd filled the wide square in Siena on June 9 1311. The shops were closed and a procession of clergy preceded ...

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 ...

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 ...