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

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

Siena: The Rise of Painting at the National Gallery review: 'a blockbuster of a show' - 5/5 This solid gold exhibition ...

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

The exhibition reunites key pieces, including The Annunciation (The National Gallery, London), Christ and the Woman of ...

By Michael Prodger On 9 June 1311, the people of Siena witnessed the most extraordinary sight they ... a thing so otherworldly and unexpected that it was simultaneously a work of art the like of which ...

Raoul Peck on photographer Ernest Cole, the death of Bill Dare, 14th-century art in Siena, Colum McCann's novel Twist ...

Last year, a show of 700-year-old Italian religious paintings electrified New York. Now it’s heading for the National Gallery ...

With glittering paintings on every side, the National Gallery’s intense and bewitching new exhibition focuses on Siena’s ...

Siena’s art is currently stealing the global limelight. The blockbuster exhibition Siena: the Rise of Painting 1300-1350 brought masterpieces from the city’s golden age to the Metropolitan ...

The Booker and Oscar-nominated writer Colum McCann discusses his thrilling new novel Twist, a dive in to the dark depths of the modern human condition set on board a ship repairing the fragile cables ...