Pietro Lorenzetti’s three-level “Tarlati Altarpiece” from about 1320 in the exhibition “Siena: The Rise of Painting: 1300-1350.” Tempera on wood, it traveled from a church in Arezzo to ...

Now, and only now, you may pick up your brush. The Met’s new show about what happens next, “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350,” makes clear how astonishing it is that paint, of all ...

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Their names are written on a piece of paper on the floor in the painting. Absent from this list is the identity of the third child in the painting, who stands to the far-right behind the countess ...

1300), a tempera and gold painting on wood panel that measures no more than 11 inches on its longest side. It is currently on show in the iconic New York museum’s exhibition “Siena ...