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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.