There’s a reassuring sense that even in the 14th century, there was a lot going on well outside the mainstream ...

In the space of 100 years, Siena's artists redefined painting as an art form and laid the foundations for Renaissance.

This solid gold exhibition celebrates the astonishing period 1300-1350 in the Italian city of Siena, which matched opulence, ...

New York just closed an exhibition on Sienese art and London is about to open another. But there is also plenty of activity ...

The glory days of Siena came to an end, like so many other good things, with the Black Death in 1348, and it never really recovered until the twentieth century. But before the plague, it was a ...

A century and a half before the Florentine flowering of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, another Tuscan city wondrous for ...

A show at the Louvre expands our understanding of the Florentine father of Western painting, who brought a revelatory naturalism and narrative sense to his work in the 13th century.

Indeed, only a year before the appearance of Duccio’s work, the Palio, Siena’s famous horse race, was first run as part of ...

Madonna set pulses racing with an unfiltered Instagram video and wowed fans with a toned down appearance. The “Material Girl” hitmaker notably did heavily alter her appearance — a rare move ...

Madonna delighted fans with an exciting announcement on Monday – but it was the unfiltered video that accompanied it that really got them talking. The 66-year-old is no stranger to heavily ...