Little Missenden Festival 2008

 

Little Missenden Festival 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Event 4 2007

Renaissance Siena:

Art for a City

 

Saturday October 13th  5.00pm

Little Missenden village hall

Tickets adults £6, unreserved

Late fifteenth-century Siena specialised in political turmoil and great, though now neglected, artists. This lecture will explore the links between its convoluted politics and its art at a period when the glorious tradition of Simone Martini and the Lorenzetti brothers was welded to new Renaissance styles - looking to Florence (its long-standing enemy) and Antiquity.

 

The lecturer Luke Syson is curator of the exhibition Renaissance Siena: Art for a City, that will open at the National Gallery on October 25th this year.

Luke Syson trained at the Courtauld Institute in London and joined the British Museum as Curator of Medals in 1991. In 2002, he transferred to the Victoria and Albert Museum as Senior Curator, Medieval and Renaissance Galleries, the following year moving again to the National Gallery with responsibility for the paintings of the later Quattrocento.

 

His publications include: Pisanello: Painter to the Renaissance Court (with Dillian Gordon: the book accompanying the 2001 National Gallery exhibition, which he co-curated); and Objects of Virtue: Art in Renaissance Italy (with Dora Thornton).

 

Link to National Gallery Siena exhibition

 

 

Link to Telegraph article

Little Missenden Festival 2007