The Ambassador of Italy in London, Inigo Lambertini, at the invitation of the Director of the National Gallery, Gabriele Finaldi, opened the exhibition 'The Rise of Painting 1300-1350'. The exhibition will be open from Saturday 8 March until Sunday 22 June and celebrates the extraordinary artistic season of the Tuscan city in the 14th century. With more than one hundred works on display, including paintings, sculptures, illuminated manuscripts and objets d'art, the exhibition 'Siena: the great season of painting, 1300 - 1350' offers a unique opportunity to admire masterpieces that marked the history of European painting.
The exhibition aims to recount the central role that Siena played in the development of medieval painting and in the birth of an artistic language that influenced the whole of Europe. The chromatic richness, elegant forms and narrative depth of artists such as Duccio di Buoninsegna, Simone Martini and the Lorenzetti brothers not only decorated churches and palaces, but offered visions of faith, justice and civil coexistence.
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