Siena
The abundance of the pictorial experience that the lively town of Siena managed to prompt in the last part of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth-century, is important not only for the quantity produced but for its quality too. Evidence of this is the flourishing of pictorial cycles, sculptural works of major relevance, architectural and urban planning...[Find out more...]
Chianti
In Chianti, in the parish church of Quercegrossa (Castelnuovo Berardenga) The Deposition of Christ, moulded by Francesco di Giorgio in polychrome terracotta and datable to 1486-88, perhaps a collaboration with Giacomo Cozzarelli...[Find out more...]
Val d'Elsa
The Val d'Elsa was directly influenced by the novelties from Florence so much to justify a massive presence of artworks strictly linked to that culture: from the altarpiece in Staggia (The Elevation of the Magdalen) painted by Antonio del Pollaiolo...[Find out more...]
Crete Senesi
In the heart of Crete about 30 km from Siena the old Monastery of Monteoliveto Maggiore saw the creation of one of the most accomplished cycles of frescos of the time dedicated to the Stories of the Monte Oliveto's Monks painted in the main cloister...[Find out more...]
Val d'Orcia
In the fascinating territory of the Val d'Orcia we can find very important evidence of the indissoluble bond between the Sienese late-Renaissance culture and the most prominent man of the time: Pope Pius II who gave great impulse to the elaborate figurative culture of the period...[Find out more...]
Val di Chiana
Surprisingly full of Renaissance masterpieces, the Val di Chiana retains in nearly all of its territory tangible signs of the fifteenth century Sienese culture. In the village of Sinalunga, we have two great examples of that culture...[Find out more...]
Val di Merse
In the harsh territory of the Val di Merse a rare reference to the revived Renaissance representational art is in the beautiful parish church of San Giovanni Battista in Rosia which has on the high altar the wooden altarpiece representing the Madonna enthroned with Child and the Saints Sebastian and Anthony the Abbot...[Find out more...]
Amiata
On the Sienese side of Monte Amiata, in the hamlet of Radicofani, anyone interested in the production of artworks in glazed terracotta by the Della Robbia family would find a sort of anthology of these works, the most accomplished examples of the Renaissance statuary...[Find out more...]
