Simone Martini: 'The Virgin and Child' (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); 'Saint Andrew', (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); 'Saint Luke', (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
Simone Martini: 'The Virgin and Child' (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); 'Saint Andrew', (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); 'Saint Luke', (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
(Event 2: Sat 4 Oct 2025 3.00pm Little Missenden Village Hall)
The recent exhibition Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300-1350 (Metropolitan Museum, New York, in 2024 and National Gallery, London, earlier this year) opened people’s eyes (and minds, and hearts) to a remarkable period of artistic creativity originating in a single medieval Tuscan city. Spurred on by competitiveness and curiosity, leading Sienese painters pushed the boundaries of what painting could be.
This lecture introduces four outstanding artists (Duccio di Buoninsegna, Simone Martini, and the brothers Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti), tracing, through their exhibited works, achievements in storytelling recounted with beauty and emotion. And it will also consider the wider narrative that the exhibition presented, reflecting briefly on the complexities of putting on such an ambitious show and its accompanying publication.
nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/past/siena-the-rise-of-painting;
Joanna Cannon: Courtauld Gallery
Joanna Cannon is Professor Emerita in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She has published widely on aspects of later-medieval Italian art, especially art and the orders of friars in central Italy, and aspects of Sienese painting of the 13th and 14th centuries. She was one of the co-curators of the exhibition Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 and principal editor of the accompanying book.
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Sat 4 Oct 2025 3.00pm
Little Missenden Village Hall
£12 (unreserved)
Online booking is managed by TicketSource. This event may be booked from the Tickets link on this page but, when booking for multiple events, it may be more convenient to use our Little Missenden Festival page on TicketSource.