Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 – an 'intense and betwitching' show
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Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 – an 'intense and betwitching' show
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 conditions for a "rapid artistic transformation": its painters abandoned "the distant, hieratic grace" of Byzantine-influenced art and concocted a new style, characterised by "dynamism, drama and emotion".But, by the 1350s, its "most glorious years" wou…
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