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Jacopo della Quercia Donatello, two days to learn about the Renaissance Siena

More than three hundred works on display with all the greatest artists of the early Renaissance. An exhibition hosted by the complex of Santa Maria della Scala is the opportunity to discover the Tuscan city.

For an Easter art and culture is tempting opportunity for the most demanding gourmets should not miss: 26 March kicked off a major exhibition in Siena from the suggestive title: From James Oak Donatello. The Arts in the early Renaissance Siena, which will have headquarters the complex of Santa Maria della Scala , the hospital that housed the ViaFrancigena sick pilgrims.

Although there is time, since it will close its doors until 11 July, is the same worth a visit in this season of early spring, when Siena and the hills give a spectacular a unique landscape.

Therefore, it is well 306 works in the exhibition, twenty polyptychs rebuilt for the occasion, 25 restorations, loans from the world's most prestigious museums and private collectors, which open up new spaces the public for the first time, 10 essays written by leading international scholars of the subject, an extraordinary exhibition that will lead visitors in 3 different environments of the most beautiful and unusual city: Siena prepares so far the most impressive exhibition dedicated to the arts of early Renaissance.

The exhibition, curated by Max Seidel, will lead the public to enjoy routes to the discovery of Siena in the early decades of the fifteenth century lived in parallel in Florence, an extraordinary artistic career, which saw the spend from Gothic to Renaissance. The exhibition opens with a retrospective section on Jacopo della Quercia (Siena, 1371 ca. - 1438), the great sculptor who was able to be the most important artist of the city in the early fifteenth century and a leading figure of the Gothic "international" in Europe.

Jacopo's career is traced from the beginning, with the monumental Madonna of the Pomegranate designed the Cathedral of Ferrara (1403-1408), to get some of the carved marble Fonte Gaia at Siena (1414-1419) , to the sculptures in polychrome wood, such as the Annunciation of the Collegiate Church of San Gimignano (1421-1426) and the Madonna and Child in the Louvre. Along with James are appreciated also the other actors of the early Sienese sculpture of that time: the graceful Francis Valdambrino the severe Domenico di Niccolò "choir."

The route then continues with two thematic sections, which introduce the visitor to painting. One is dedicated to the success of which continued to enjoy at the Sienese painters of the fifteenth century some prototypes developed in the previous century by the brothers Lorenzetti and Simone Martini, a phenomenon which has its manifesto in the altarpiece of San Pietro a fold in which Matteo di Giovanni, now in the third quarter of the century, a faithful copy of the famous Annunciation Simone in 1333.

The second section presents the foreign teachers who work in town during the twenties, played a role Sienese art in the evolution toward the Renaissance. These include Lorenzo Ghiberti and Donatello, along with James and others involved in the site of the new baptismal font, which belonged to the great drummer of Faerie Bode Museum in Berlin in 1429 and who returns for the first time in Siena after a few centuries.

the Madonna of Humility (Pisa, Museo Nazionale di San Matteo) tells of the passage of Siena Gentile da Fabriano, author in 1425 of a lost immaginemariana in Piazza del Campo, which was decisive for the new generation that was requiring the limelight pictorial town.

was the generation of the "shadowy Renaissance," which has its champions in John Paul's (which has been rebuilt, as far as possible for the youth in 1426 all'altareMalavolti altarpiece of the church of San Domenico), in Stephen John said Sassetta ( of which are collected for the first time all the fragments of the altarpiece painted in 1423-1424 for the Arte della Lana, along with other masterpieces) and his close followers, by Pietro di Giovanni d'Ambrogio, the Master of the Observance (well represented by the eponymous blade and almost the entire series of the famous stories of St. Anthony Abbot) and Sano di Pietro (which shows the restored altarpiece of the Jesuits in 1444).

close the group Domenico di Bartolo, a Sienese atypical, as demonstrated by the Madonna of humility, signed and dated 1433, was able to be more Florentine of the Florentines themselves, so you can compare his works with those of Filippo Lippi and Luca della Robbia.

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