The major exhibition on Ambrogio Lorenzetti in Siena: here are the preview photos

Scheduled for Sunday, October 22, is the opening of the major exhibition that Siena is dedicating to Ambrogio Lorenzetti: almost all of the artist’s movable works have been brought together in Santa Maria della Scala for an exhibition that constitutes a new milestone in studies on the great Sienese painter, best known for the Good and Bad Government frescoes in Siena’s Palazzo Pubblico, but the author of a production of the highest level, which can be seen up close almost in its entirety in the Siena review, which closes next January 21.

A project launched in 2015, of great cultural and civic value, curated by three experts on Sienese art such as Alessandro Bagnoli, Roberto Bartalini and Max Seidel, who also edited the catalog (published by Silvana Editoriale), which also stands as an up-to-date monograph on Ambrogio Lorenzetti: it is the first on the Sienese painter in almost sixty years (the last was written by George Rowley in 1958). “Ambrogio Lorenzetti,” declares Daniele Pitteri, director of the Santa Maria della Scala complex, “was one of the greatest painters of the 14th century, an extraordinary innovator of the stylistic and iconographic languages of his time, as well as an artist of high and refined intellectual qualities. At a time when progressively, and fortunately, we are abandoning the logic of large blockbuster exhibitions to embrace that of rediscovery and monographic reflection on the great artists of the past, an exhibition dedicated to Lorenzetti takes on a value that goes beyond the impact of the winds.”

The exhibition is open daily except Tuesdays. Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Last admission half an hour before closing time. Closed on Tuesdays and December 25. Open on Tuesdays on Oct. 31, Dec. 26 and Jan. 2. From Oct. 30 to Nov. 1 open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. From Dec. 23 to Jan. 6 open daily from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tickets: cumulative exhibition and Santa Maria della Scala 14 euros (reduced 12), exhibition + Civic Museum 14 euros, exhibition + Santa Maria + Civic Museum 20, Acropolis Pass (Exhibition + Siena Cathedral + Santa Maria della Scala) 25 euros (the latter option only from Oct. 22 to Oct. 31 and from Dec. 26 to Jan. 6).

Below, a selection of preview photos of the exhibition. A detailed review will follow shortly.

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Madonna Suckling the Child, detail (c. 1325; tempera and gold on panel, 96 x 49.1 cm; Siena, Museo Diocesano

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Painted Cross (c. 1320-1325; tempera and gold on panel, 220 x 164 cm; Montenero d’Orcia, pieve di Santa Lucia)

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, St. Michael the Archangel Victorious over the Devil (c. 1325-1330; polychrome glass painted with grisaille and partly sgraffito, assembled with tin-soldered lead profiles, 82 x 63 cm; Siena, Palazzo Pubblico, Museo Civico)

Ambrogio Lorenzetti exhibition room in Siena

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, detail of the Madonna and Child from the triptych of Saint Proculus (1332; tempera and gold on panel, 169.5 x 56.4 cm; Florence, Uffizi)

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, frescoes from the hermitage of Montesiepi

Saint Michael and Saint Galgano, from the frescoes of Montesiepi

Ambrogio Lorenzetti exhibition hall in Siena

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Madonna and Child Enthroned with Theological Virtues, Musician Angels, Saints and Prophets-the Massa Marittima Majesty (gold, silver, lapis lazuli and tempera on poplar wood panels; height 161 cm the central panel, 147.1 cm the side panels, width 206.5 cm; Massa Marittima, Museum of Sacred Art)

The Majesty of Massa Marittima, detail of the figure of Charity

Ambrogio Lorenzetti exhibition hall in Siena

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Polyptych of Magdalene (c. 1342-1344; tempera and gold on panel; Siena, Pinacoteca Nazionale)

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegory of the Commune of Siena, detail (1344; cover of Gabella register from the second half of 1344; tempera on panel, 41.8 x 24.7 cm; Siena, State Archives)

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Annunciation (1344; tempera and gold on panel, 121.5 x 116 cm; 9 x 123 cm the predella; Siena, Pinacoteca Nazionale)

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