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Important Sienese School Italian Painters
Taddeo di Bartolo (1362-1422) Italian, Sienese, Early Renaissance
Giovanni Antonio Bazzi (1477-1548) Italian, Sienese, High Renaissance
Domenico di Pace Beccafumi 1486-1551) Italian, Sienese, Renaissance
Duccio di Buoninsegna (1255-1319) Italian, Sienese, Early Renaissance
Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia (1403-1483) Italian, Sienese, Early Renaissance
Sano di Pietro (1406-1481) Italian, Sienese, Early Renaissance
Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1290-1348) Italian, Sienese, Early Renaissance
Pietro Lorenzetti (1280-1348) Italian, Sienese, Early Renaissance
Coppo di Marcovaldo (1225-1274) Italian, Sienese, Early Renaissance
Simone Martini (1280-1344) Italian, Sienese, Early Renaissance
Lippo Memmi (1285 -1361) Italian, Sienese, Early Renaissance
Giovanni di Paolo (1399-1482) Italian, Sienese, Renaissance
Sassetta (1394-1450) Italian, Sienese, Early Renaissance
Sodoma (1477-1548) Italian, Sienese, High Renaissance
Sienese Painting
While Byzantine art is severe and rigid, Sienese painting is youthful, lovely, and graceful. The prevailing characteristic being slender and supple grace. It seems as if the stone vaults of the churches had suddenly become transparent, and the eyes gazed upwards towards heaven, where tender ethereal beings, singing and praising the Highest, lived in eternal youth and lovingly gazed down upon mankind. In his great Madonna of the Cathedral, Duccio gave first impulse. This Mary is no linger sever and dignified, but mild and gracious, as if she has had pity upon the longing soul of the believer; for a soft dreamy melancholy transfigures her features. Her relation to the Child also is changed; she is no longer the involuntary mother of God, but a tender mother. Duccio explored in his own art a new world of emotion and passion, but with a lyricism and sensitivity to color that became the foundation of Sienese painting.Key Descriptive Words and Phrases associated with the Renaissance Movement - rebirth, rediscovery of the classical world, publication of Della Pittura, a book about the laws of mathematical perspective for artists, sfumato, chiaroscuro, Savonarola, spiritually significant, illuminated manuscript, idealized biblical themes, scriptorium, illuminator, Age of Discovery, axonometric drawing, curiosity about the natural world, realistic use of colours and light, Bonfire of the Vanities, Old Testament stories, ethereal and foggy backgrounds, Gospel parables, The Blackdeath, romanticized landscapes, Christian symbolism.
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