News Focus Ancient art Museums Siena Siena National Picture Gallery Six hundred
Rome, 1621. That year, the physician, scholar, and collector Giulio Mancini took an interest in a large canvas by Rutilio Manetti (Siena, 1571–1639) that had recently arrived in the city: it wasthe Allegory of the Four Seasons…
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Interviews Museography Museums New set-up Siena National Picture Gallery
At the Siena National Picture Gallery, work has begun on energy efficiency and the removal of architectural barriers that will last until June 2026, an opportunity, along with the movement of works, to rethink the museum's new layout in…
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Works and artists Ancient art Five hundred Mannerism Siena Siena National Picture Gallery
Cesare Brandi, in 1933, compiling the catalog of the collection held by the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena, had called them "heirlooms." a term that has perhaps become inadequate today to define, in a single word, the cartoons that Domenico…
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A Frenchman is the new director of the Pinacoteca di Siena: he is Axel Hémery, whose appointment arrived this morning. The Ministry of Culture has in fact appointed six new directors of autonomous museums and, among them…
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