| The greatest Sienese painters were among their executants, including Duccio and Ambrogio Lorenzetti. |
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| The text is lavishly illustrated, with many colour images attesting to the brilliance of Sienese art. |
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| Peace appears accordingly in the Sienese frescoes as a seductive Venus-like figure, reclining on a suit of armor. |
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| He was born in Borgo Sansepolcro, a small town near Arezzo, where painting was dominated by the Sienese. |
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| The Corso del Palio, Race for the Palio, is the name of the spectacular horse race which the Sienese hold twice a year in the Virgin's honor. |
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| Threatened by a company of Bretons, the Sienese hired their own force of seven thousand mercenaries. |
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| That Sienese art came to be self-referential and insular in nature is evident from the constant reworking of compositions and motifs from the earlier trecento. |
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| The influence of the Sienese school is discernible in his work. |
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| He traced Piero's sources in Sienese and Florentine painting and speculated on his influence in Ferrara and Venice with unparalleled delicacy and subtlety. |
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| The child, as is usual for important figures in Sienese painting, is larger than life-size. |
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| Duccio and the Sienese painters segue into a long gallery dedicated to the Gothic altarpiece and devotional practice in Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands. |
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