Sienese Painting #1: The Art of Story Telling
Event Details
To coincide with the National Gallery’s exhibition: Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 (8 March – 22 June 2025), organized with New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it was shown to great acclaim in the autumn of 2024, we are offering two online Salon studies led by Washington-based art historian Aneta Georgievska-Shine. Each study will continue the exploration begun in her lecture At the threshold of the Renaissance: The ‘Rise of Painting’ in fourteenth century Siena, providing an opportunity to examine aspects of this astonishing flowering of creativity in greater depth as part of a small group of participants.
Study 1: Sienese Painting: The Art of Story Telling
One of the most interesting developments in the Sienese painting of the 14th century is the pronounced turn towards story telling. In addition to creating pictorial narratives based on canonical sources such as the Bible, the artists of this city explored various ways of addressing abstract topics – such as the battle between virtue and vice – in elaborate allegorical composition.
JOINING DETAILS:
- Two-hour study on Zoom led by Aneta Georgievska-Shine
- Sunday 6 April 2025, 4.00-6.00 pm (UK/BST)
- £35.00 for two-hour study
- An additional study: Sienese Painting: Simone Martini – Elegance & Refined Realism may be booked individually.
