Example sentences for: sienese

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  • While Florentine art developed its formidable intellectual and emotional power, the tone of Sienese painting — Simone Martini, the Lorenzettis, even the Mannerist Sodoma — remained gentle and delicate, bathed in the light and color of its surrounding countryside.

  • To the left is the stately Maestà (Madonna Enthroned; 1315) and to the right, Guidoriccio da Fogliano (1328, but whose authenticity has recently been disputed), depicting the Sienese captain’s ride to a historic victory at Montemassi — in the nicely detailed Tuscan landscape, notice the little Chianti vineyard in the military encampment.

  • Its prized possessions are two: the haunting Volto Santo (Holy Face), a wooden crucifix said to have been carved by Nicodemus and possessing miraculous powers; and the graceful white marble tomb of Ilaria del Carretto Guinigi by master Sienese sculptor Jacopo de lla Quercia (1408) in the former sacristy.

  • Start out at San Casciano in Val di Pesa, 17 km (11 miles) south of Florence, with a bonus for art-lovers of a Simone Martini Crucifixion and other Sienese works in the church of La Misericordia.

  • The Sala del Mappamondo (named after a lost map of the Sienese world painted by Ambrogio Lorenzetti to trace the city’s international banking interests) has two great frescoes by the Siena-born master Simone Martini.


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