Sienna Study Guide

Palazzo Publico 

• exterior

• brick, stone, and marble

• 1st building phse (1297-1310)

  • with torre del mangia brick and stone 

• 1338-48

• stone crest by Lippo Memmi

Campo

• brick, stone, and marble

• 1st paved in 1327-49

Cappella di Piazza

• marble

• 1352-76

• 1463-68

Campo

• fonte gaia

• Jacopo della Quercia

• marble 

• 1414-19

  • now in the Ospedale

Palazzo Pubblico

• Sala del Mappamondo

• with Siome Martini’s Maestra and other civic saint and Sienese victories

Palazzo Publico

• Sala del Mappamondo

• west wall with Guidoiccio: “The New Town” 

• traces of Lorenzetti’s Mappamondo

Palazzo Pubblico 

• sala della Pace

• The Allegory of good Government 

• Lorenzetti: 1338

Palazzo Pubblico

• The allegory of BAD government 

• Lorenzetti: 1338

Duomo

• exterior, marble 

• many architects including Nicola and giovanni Pisano 

• present cathedral started in 1215

  • facade begun 1285

Duomo

• Madonna del Voto

• Guido da Siena(workshop of Siena)

• tempera/panel/gold

• 1283-90

Duomo

• Pulpit

• Nicola Pisano

• carra marble 

• 1265-68

Duomo

• east end stained glass 

• Duccio(design)

• Dormition, Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin

• 1288

Duomo

• Maestra

• Duccio 

• central panel, front, (laity side)

• tempera/panel

• 1308-11

Duomo

• nave floor

• Symbols of Siena and allies 

• marble pavement

• 14th-Century(replaced in 19th century)

Ospedale di Santa Maria della Scala

• exterior 

• after 1195

Ospedale 

• sala del Pellegrinaio(pilgrims hall)

• Domenico di Bartolo

• The rearing and Education of Orphans and the Marriage of an Orphan

• fresco, 1441

Ospedale

• Pellegrinaio

• Domenico di Bartolo

• The Enlargement of the Hospital 

• fresco

• 1441

Duomo Nuevo(new cathedral)

• begun 1339

Fonte Branda

• brick and stone

• 1248

Porta Romana 

• brick 

• 1328

Cuna

• Fortifed grange 

• 1224-1314

Monteriggioni

• fortified Sienese order town

• early 13th century

Duomo

• Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi

• Annunication 

• tempera/panel 

• 1333

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

• Martyrdom of Seven Franciscans 

• San Francesco 

• fresco

• 1330’s 

Tin-glazed earthenware

• Maestro Denedetto

• Siena

• 1510

Italian Bobbin Lace

• Siena(?)

• 16th cen

Coat of Arms

• Art of shoemaking \

• stone

• siena

• 15th C

Vecchietta

• Siena’s Civic Saints and Beati

• tempera/panel/gold

• 1445

  • originally from Ospedale

Vecchietta

• St. Catherine of Siena 

• Sala del Consiglio 

• Palazzo Pubblico 

• fresco

• 1461

Loggia Piccolomini(Loggia del Papa)

• commissioned by Pius II from Antonio Federighi

• marble

• 1462

Vecchietta

• Biccherna tavoletta(wooden book cover)

• Coronation of Pius II

• tempera/gold/panel

• 1460

Piccolomini Library

• Duomo

• frescoes by Pinturicchio

• commissioned by Pius II

• 1501-1507