Sienese school

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The Sienese School of painting flourished in Siena,Italy between the 13th and 15th centuries and for a time rivalled Florence, though it was more conservative, being inclined towards the decorative beauty and elegant grace of late Gothic art. Its most important representatives include Duccio, whose work shows Byzantine influence; his pupil Simone Martini; Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti; Domenico and Taddeo di Bartolo; Sassetta and Matteo di Giovanni. Unlike the naturalistic Florentine art, there is a mystical streak in Sienese art, characterized by a common focus on miraculous events, with less attention to proportions, and surrealist distortions of time and place. In the 16th century the Mannerists Beccafumi and Il Sodoma worked there. While Baldassare Peruzzi was born and trained in Siena, his major works and style reflect his long career in Rome. The economic and political decline of Siena by the 1500s, its eventual external subjugation, tempered the expansion and progression of the artistic enterprise. Luckily for modern centuries, it has also meant that Siena is a remarkably preserved Italian late-Medieval town.

Maestà by Duccio (1308-11) Tempera on wood, 214 x 412 cm Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena

List of artists

1251–1300

• Coppo di Marcovaldo
• Guido da Siena

1301–1350

• Barna da Siena
• Duccio di Buoninsegna
• Ambrogio Lorenzetti
• Pietro Lorenzetti
• Ugolino Lorenzetti
• Lippo Memmi
• Segna di Buonaventure
• Simone Martini

1351–1400

• Bartolo di Fredi
• Spinello Aretino
• Taddeo di Bartolo
• Andrea Vanni

1401–1450

• Giovanni di Paolo
• Pietro di Giovanni d'Ambrogio
• Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni)

1451–1500

• Lorenzo Di Pietro (Vecchietta)
• Domenico di Bartolo
• Francesco di Giorgio
• Matteo di Giovanni
• Neroccio dei Landi
• Sano di Pietro

1501–1550

• Domenico Beccafumi
• Il Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi)

1601–1650

• Francesco Vanni
• Ventura Salimbeni

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