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The Sienese school of painting flourished in Siena, Italy, between the 13th and 15th centuries. Its most important artists include Duccio, whose work shows Byzantine influence, his pupil Simone Martini, the brothers Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti and Domenico and Taddeo di Bartolo, Sassetta, and Matteo di Giovanni.

History

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Duccio may be considered the "father of Sienese painting". The brothers Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti were "responsible for a crucial development in Sienese art, moving from the tradition inherited from Duccio towards a Gothic style, incorporating the innovations in Florence introduced by Giotto and Arnolfo di Cambio".

"Sienese art flourished even when Siena itself had begun to decline economically and politically. And while the artists of 15th-century Siena did not enjoy the widespread patronage and respect that their 14th-century ancestors had received, the paintings and illuminated manuscripts they produced form one of the undervalued treasures in the bounty of Italian art."

In the late 15th century, Siena "finally succumbed" to the Florentine school's teachings on perspective and naturalistic representation, absorbing its "humanist culture". It also has "a mystical streak...characterized by a common focus on miraculous events, with less attention to proportions, distortions of time and place, and often dreamlike coloration".

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List of artists

1251–1300

  • Guido da Siena

1301–1350

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  • Duccio di Buoninsegna
  • Segna di Buonaventura
  • Niccolò di Segna
  • Simone Martini
  • Lippo Memmi
  • Naddo Ceccarelli
  • Ambrogio Lorenzetti
  • Pietro Lorenzetti
  • Bartolomeo Bulgarini
  • Ugolino di Nerio
  • Lippo Vanni

1351–1400

  • Bartolo di Fredi
  • Andrea Vanni
  • Francesco di Vannuccio
  • Jacopo di Mino del Pellicciaio
  • Niccolò di Bonaccorso
  • Niccolò di Ser Sozzo
  • Luca di Tommè
  • Taddeo di Bartolo
  • Andrea di Bartolo
  • Paolo di Giovanni Fei
  • (Master of the Richardson Triptych)
  • Biagio Goro Ghezzi

1401–1450

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  • Benedetto di Bindo
  • Domenico di Bartolo
  • Giovanni di Paolo
  • Gregorio di Cecco
  • Martino di Bartolomeo
  • Master of the Osservanza Triptych
  • Pietro di Giovanni d'Ambrogio
  • Priamo della Quercia
  • Sano di Pietro
  • Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni)
  • Lorenzo di Pietro (Vecchietta)

1451–1500

  • Nicola di Ulisse
  • Matteo di Giovanni
  • Benvenuto di Giovanni
  • Carlo di Giovanni
  • Francesco di Giorgio Martini
  • Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi
  • Pietro di Francesco degli Orioli
  • Guidoccio Cozzarelli
  • Bernardino Fungai
  • Pellegrino di Mariano
  • Andrea di Niccolò
  • Pietro di Domenico

1501–1550

thumb|[[Domenico Beccafumi, Public Virtues of Greek and Roman Heroes – The Sacrifice of King Codron of Athens, fresco, c. 1530]]

  • Girolamo di Benvenuto
  • Giacomo Pacchiarotti
  • Girolamo del Pacchia
  • Domenico Beccafumi
  • Il Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi)
  • Riccio Sanese (Bartolomeo Neroni)

1601–1650

  • Francesco Vanni
  • Ventura Salimbeni
  • Rutilio Manetti

See also

  • Bolognese school
  • Lucchese school
  • School of Ferrara
  • Florentine school

References

Further reading

  • (see index)
  • Timothy Hyman; Sienese Painting, Thames & Hudson, 2003 .
  • Italian paintings : a catalogue of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art : Sienese and Central Italian schools, a collection catalog containing information about the artists and their works (see index)