The art of the Italian brothers Pietro (active 1306-1348") and Ambrogio (1319-1348") Lorenzetti emerged from the middle-class world of late medieval Siena and was one of the varied manifestations of Tuscan Gothic painting. There is little documentary...

In the south transept of the lower church of S. Francesco, Assisi, in the early fourteenth century, Pietro Lorenzetti painted a powerful vision of death. (1) Alone, beneath an arch, a man hangs by the neck from a wooden beam. His straggling hair...

All that remains of the Mappamondo that Ambrogio Lorenzetti painted in 1345 for the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, are the markings left by its installation on the wall opposite Simone Martini's Maesta. Disturbingly absent/present, this ghost of a work does not have to remain a...