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Renaissance Siena.(Report from Europe)(Renaissance Siena: Art for a City)(Brief article)
The art produced in Florence and Rome during the Renaissance is well known and admired. The same can be said of the paintings made at the end of the medieval era in Siena. What is less understood is Siena's role in the later fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
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A major exhibition called Renaissance Siena: Art for a City at London's National Gallery examines in depth the painting and sculpture produced during the final century of the Sienese republic. Some one hundred works, including paintings, sculpture, drawings, manuscripts, and ceramics, are on view. Because Florence so dominated art-making at the time, the output from Siena--which did not conform to Florentine ideals--has often been overlooked; the aim of the show is to tell the story of a lost Renaissance.
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