Byzantine art had a significant impact on the Italian Renaissance and the evolution of the cultural boom of the early modern ages.

COMMENTARY: We should, above all, pray for a pope who kneels before the divine mystery as revealed in Scripture and Tradition ...

Luca Signorelli's Saint Cecilia Altarpiece, one of the star attractions of Pinacoteca comunale di Città di Castello, has been conserved and redisplayed to the public.

We bring to life a vibrant city of artists collaborating, learning and looking. After centuries of separation, we reunite scenes that once formed part of Duccio’s monumental 'Maestà' altarpiece.

It is in the "Maestà," an altarpiece painted for the Siena cathedral in 1311, where we encounter the full scope of Duccio's vision. The double-sided work originally featured an image of the ...

The crucial question of the relationship between Cimabue and Duccio is then addressed. The visit continues with a section constructed around Cimabue’s eight-panel diptych, of which the Louvre has ...

Duccio’s “Maesta” was in the center of the altarpiece where it remained until 1506, when it was partly dismantled and eventually dismembered. Some fragments were lost and others were sold. However, ...

“When you look at almost everything that people had said about the inventions of [the Sienese painter] Duccio, of Giotto… we can see that, actually, Cimabue had already opened the path to ...

Make sure to watch out for the surviving panels of Duccio di Buoninsegna’s ‘Maestà’, which is the first double-sided altarpiece in Western painting. It was made for Siena’s cathedral ...