The city of Siena, nestled in Tuscany’s rolling green hills and surrounded by medieval villages, is a living work of art. Once a prosperous banking center in the Middle Ages, strategically located along ancient trade routes, Siena and its surrounding province became the cradle of the 14th-century Sienese School of painting.
Towering hilltop churches and palaces set the stage for these artists, including Duccio di Buoninsegna, Simone Martini, and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, whose luminous, emotionally resonant works helped shape the early Renaissance.
