siena

June 25, 2014
On this day in 1504, Sodoma completed his fresco project for the refectory (monastic dining room) of Santa Anna in Camprena, an Olivetan convent near the Tuscan town of Pienza.

March 23, 2014
The Cathedral of Siena re-opened its “Gate of Heaven” on 1 March 2014.

December 28, 2013
Francesco Vanni: Art in Late Renaissance Siena , on view through 5 January at Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, CT, is reviewed today in the New York Times .

October 16, 2013
artgalleryofontario : Warriors Fighting , early 1500s Sienese School, Italian, early 16th Century Pen and brown ink with brown washes on antique laid paper support: 21.2 x 27.9 cm Gift of Sidney and Gladye Bregman, 2007 © 2013 Art Gallery of Ontario

September 27, 2013
Francesco Vanni: Art in Late Renaissance Siena opens today through 5 January at Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, CT. Vanni was Siena’s preeminent artist at the dawn of the Baroque era and a key figure in Italian Counter-Reformation painting.

August 5, 2013
The Italian painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, known as Sodoma , was documented at work in the cloister of Monte Oliveto Maggiore on 5 August 1505.

July 19, 2013
Pietro Lorenzetti, Christ Between Saints Peter and Paul, c.1320 © Ferens Art Gallery, Hull Museums.