Tour: Siena in the 1400s

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Only about fifty miles separate Florence and Siena. However, if we compare Florentine pictures to these painted during the same period in Siena, we might believe we have stepped through time, not space. The gold backgrounds, the rich pattern and tooled detail, the saints and angels standing in formation—all seem more at home in the late Middle Ages than in the early Renaissance.

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Captions

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1	Domenico di Bartolo, Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saint Peter and Saint Paul, c. 1430
2	Sano di Pietro, Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome, Saint Bernardino, and Angels, c. 1460/1470
3	Matteo di Giovanni, Madonna and Child with Angels and Cherubim, c. 1460/1465
4	Benvenuto di Giovanni, The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1470/1475
5	Neroccio de' Landi, Portrait of a Lady, c. 1485
6	Neroccio de' Landi, Claudia Quinta, c. 1490/1495
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7	Girolamo di Benvenuto, Portrait of a Young Woman, c. 1508