Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420-1500

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Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420-1500 is written by Keith Christiansen and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0810914735 (ISBN 10) and 9780810914735 (ISBN 13).

Catalog of an exhibition which opened at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Dec. 20, 1988. This first comprehensive study in English devoted to Sienese painting to be published in four decades centers on the fifteenth century, a fascinating but frequently neglected period when Sienese artists confronted the innovations of Renaissance painting in Florence. Two introductory essays survey fifteenth-century Sienese painting, and individual entries examine 139 key works in exhaustive detail, presenting new insights into long-debated issues of interpretation and attribution, and often utilizing previously unpublished material. Most of the major paintings are reproduced in color and supplemented with illustrations of related comparative works.