Pinacoteca Nazionale (Siena)

Pinacoteca Nazionale
	Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena
	The exterior view
Established	1932
Location	Via San Pietro 29, Siena, Italy
Website	www.pinacotecanazionale.siena.it

The Pinacoteca Nazionale is a national museum in Siena, Tuscany, Italy. Inaugurated in 1932, it houses especially late medieval and Renaissance paintings from Italian artists. It is housed in the Brigidi and Buonsignori palaces in the city's center: the former, built in the 14th century, it is traditionally identified as the Pannocchieschi family's residence. The Palazzo Bichi-Buonsignori, although built in the 15th century, has a 19th-century neo-medieval façade based on the city's Palazzo Pubblico.

The gallery has one of the largest collections of Sienese paintings with gold backgrounds from the 14th and 15th centuries.[1]

Works in the gallery include:

Duccio di Buoninsegna's Polyptych N. 28 and Madonna of the Franciscans
Guido da Siena's St. Peter Enthroned
Simone Martini's Blessed Agostino Novello and His Miracles (c. 1330)
Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Annunciation (c. 1344)
Bartolo di Fredi's Adoration of the Magi
Michelino da Besozzo's Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine (c. 1420)
Il Sodoma's Christ at the Column and Deposition
Domenico Beccafumi's Birth of the Virgin, St. Michael Expelling the Rebel Angels, Coronation of the Virgin, Trinity Triptych, Marriage of St Catherine, Stigmatization of St. Catherine of Siena, St Lucy and Christ in Limbo

Other artists represented include Ugolino di Nerio, Pietro Lorenzetti, Sassetta, Domenico di Bartolo, Taddeo di Bartolo, Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Matteo di Giovanni, Neroccio di Bartolomeo

Gallery

Ambrogio Lorenzetti:
Annunciation, 1344.
Michelino da Besozzo:
Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine, c. 1420.
Domenico di Bartolo:
Madonna of Humility, 1433.
Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi:
Madonna and Child with St Michael and St Bernardino, 1476.
Lorenzo Lotto:
Nativity, 1527–1528.

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References

Mauro Civai, Enrico Toti, Siena cuore medievale d'Europa. Alsaba Edizioni, 2004 ISBN 88-85331-08-4 page 103

Sources

Civai, Mauro; Enrico Toti (2004). Siena cuore medievale d'Europa. Il sogno gotico. Siena: Alsaba Edizioni. ISBN 88-85331-08-4.

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[1] Mauro Civai, Enrico Toti, Siena cuore medievale d'Europa. Alsaba Edizioni, 2004 ISBN 88-85331-08-4 page 103