Approximately contemporary with the Decameron are a series of frescos in Siena by Ambrogio Lorenzetti painted about 1338-40, one of which shows a group of women doing a " bridge " figure while accompanied by another woman playing the tambourine.

The frescoes that are painted on the interiors of the Palace of the Popes and the churches of Avignon were created primarily by artists from Siena.

" ( Lanciani, 1896 ch 1 ) Like prophets, Renaissance sibyls forecasting the advent of Christ appear in monuments: modelled by Giacomo della Porta in the Santa Casa at Loreto, painted by Raphael in Santa Maria della Pace, by Pinturicchio in the Borgia apartments of the Vatican, engraved by Baccio Baldini, a contemporary of Botticelli, and graffites by Matteo di Giovanni in the pavement of the Duomo of Siena.

In June – August 1425 he was in Siena, where he painted a Madonna with Child, now lost, for the Palazzo dei Notai on Piazza del Campo.

The painting's subject is almost the same as that which he also painted on the wall of the Petrucci palace in Siena — the principal figures being Pan himself, Olympus, Echo, a man reclining on the ground and two listening shepherds.

In the Monastery of Monte Oliveto Maggiore ( Siena ) he painted eight frescoes, forming part of a vast series of the life of St. Benedict ; they are at present much injured.

Vecchietta's Arliquiera, a painted wardrobe for holy relics painted by Vecchietta was placed in the Old Sacristy of Santa Maria della Scala in 1445, but is now in the National Picture Gallery of Siena.

Il Sodoma painted in a manner that superimposed the High Renaissance style of early 16th-century Rome onto the traditions of the provincial Sienese school ; he spent the bulk of his professional life in Siena, with two periods in Rome.

In the nearby chapel, dedicate to the Very Holy Name of Jesus, is a table with Christ's monogram, allegedly painted by Bernardino of Siena.

Lippo Memmi also painted a large Maesta in the Town Hall of San Gimignano, in imitation of that done by Simone Martini at the Town Hall of Siena.

He painted frescoes of Probatica, or Pool of Siloam, in the Ospedale di Santa Maria della Scala ( hospital ) of Siena.

Among his later works the chief are the very fine series of frescoes painted in 1407-1408 on the walls and vault of a chapel in the municipal buildings of Siena ; these also have suffered much from repainting, but still are the finest of Spinello's existing frescoes.

Many of his religious works are in churches in Siena, Arezzo, and Assisi.

He wrote works of hagiography on Saint Catherine of Siena and Saint Anthony Maria Zaccaria, but his primary religious interest was in the subject of the occult.

Some of the most influetal people of the religious establishment as Bernardino of Siena blamed sodomites for having brought the wrath of God down on the heads of the populace.

Her early pious activities in Siena attracted a group of followers, both women and men, while they also brought her to the attention of the Dominican Order, which called her to Florence in 1374 to interrogate her for possible heresy.

The other variants, with the exception of Rufina from the north-east side of Florence and Montalbano in the south of Pistoia, originate in the respective named provinces: Siena for the Colli Senesi, Florence for the Colli Fiorentini, Arezzo for the Colli Aretini and Pisa for the Colline Pisane.

In Europe, in fact, it was often the female members of the Order, such as Catherine of Siena, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Christine of Stommeln, Margaret Ebner, and Elsbet Stagl, that gained reputations for having mystical experiences.

At the beginning of 1508 Bartolomeo moved to Venice to paint a Holy Father, St. Mary Magdalene and St. Catherine of Siena for the Dominicans of San Pietro Martire in Murano, influenced somewhat by Venetian colorism.

He is known as the patron saint of animals, the environment and one of the two patrons of Italy ( with Catherine of Siena ), and it is customary for Catholic and Anglican churches to hold ceremonies blessing animals on his feast day of 4 October.

He participated in jousting, hawking, hunting, and horse breeding for the palio, a horse race in Siena.

The hills the Maremma can be divided into three areas: the area del Tufo ( tufo is a volcanic rock found in the area that has been used for thousands of years in construction ), the Colline Metallifere ( literally, " the hills that produce metals ") and the internal hills on the border with the Siena region.

As their name says, the soil of these hills, which spread from the border with the province of Siena to the Gulf of Follonica, is rich in minerals and mines have been excavated for centuries in search of iron, copper, lead, zinc, pyrites and silver.

Once Siena had been conquered by Florence under the rule of the Medici family in 1555, Montalcino held out for almost four years, but ultimately fell to the Florentines, under whose control it remained until the Grand Duchy of Tuscany was amalgamated into a united Italy in 1861.

It was around this time when a long series of busts of past Popes was made for the Duomo of Siena, which included one of the female Pope, named as " Johannes VIII, Foemina de Anglia " and included between Leo IV and Benedict III.

The famous bust of her, inscribed Johannes VIII, Femina ex Anglia, which had been carved for the series of Papal figures in the Duomo di Siena about 1400 and was noted by travelers, was either destroyed or recarved and relabeled, replaced by a male figure, of Pope Zachary.

Honorius IV inherited plans for another crusade, but confined himself to collecting the tithes imposed by the Council of Lyon, arranging with the great banking houses of Florence, Siena, and Pistoia to act as his agents.

Its iconography illustrating the donor's career gives an edited version of Pius ' life, passing over his former support of the antipope Felix V. Though Pinturrichio labored for five years, the books never reached their splendid destination ; yet the Piccolomini Library is a monument of the High Renaissance in Siena.

He stayed for some time at Viterbo, and then at Siena, but went ultimately to France.

Cristoforo Piancone, who is serving a life sentence for six murders, managed to steal € 170, 000 from the bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena with an accomplice, on October 1, 2007.

The name derives from the most notable Renaissance location for the earth, Siena, Italy, and is short for terra di Siena, " earth of Siena ".

Nevertheless, the first direct mention of playing cards was in 1299 in a manuscript written in Siena titled " Trattato del governo della familia di Pipozzo di Sandro ", in which the existence of naibbe is mentioned, which is the first term used for playing cards ( naipes in Spanish ), originating from the Arabic word naib (` deputy ') suggesting the name of the game -` the Game of Deputies '.

The economic and political decline of Siena by the 16th century, and its eventual subjugation by Florence, largely checked the development of Sienese painting, although it also meant that a good proportion of Sienese works in churches and public buildings were not discarded or destroyed by new paintings or rebuilding.

From colonial era churches and architecture to natural wonders like cenote notable sights to visit in Valladolid are the colonial era cathedral Ex-convent and church Convent of San Bernardino de Siena named after saint Bernardino of siena in whom was built by Franciscan missionaries between 1552 and 1560.

Two other churches of note are the Church of the Ex-monastery of San Bernardino de Siena and the Church of Veracruz.

Early church paintings are found in Siena, Italy, dating to 1408 and in different churches in Denmark and Sweden, such as Tolfta church, Sweden, which dates to circa 1460-1525.

* Other churches in the city conserve paintings by Guido da Siena, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Marco Pino da Siena, Pietro da Cortona, Pietro Negroni " il Giovane Zingaro ", Giuseppe Ribera, Cornelius Smeet, Abram Vink, Teodoro d ' Errico, Francesco de Mura, Massimo Stanzione, and Paolo de Majo.

They traveled over Caprarola, Siena, Florence, Pisa, Carrara, Lucca, Bologna, Padua, Venice, and Trieste where they studied the local art collections and churches, and on through the Tyrol and Germany.

They traveled over Caprarola, Siena, Florence, Pisa, Carrara, Lucca, Bologna, Padua, Venice, and Trieste where they studied the local art collections and churches, and on through the Tyrol and Germany.

1167 ), University of Modena ( 1175 ), University of Palencia ( 1208 ), University of Cambridge ( 1209 ), University of Salamanca ( 1218 ), University of Montpellier ( 1220 ), University of Padua ( 1222 ), University of Toulouse ( 1229 ), University of Orleans ( 1235 ), University of Siena ( 1240 ) and University of Coimbra ( 1288 ) began as private corporations of teachers and their pupils.

Trumbull has several private schools, including the ( non-denominational ) Christian Heritage School ( K-12 ) and ( Catholic ) St. Catherine of Siena School ( K-8 ), St. Joseph High School, and St. Theresa School ( K-8 ).

Equipped with the reputation that comes from a famous name, the connections and dynastic links with many of the ruling families of Italy, and with their own private fief as a base, both Niccolò, and his father Aldobrandino made careers as mercenaries taking Condotte ( mercenary contracts ) with Florence, Siena, the Pope, and the Kingdom of Naples at various times.

* Siena College: A private Catholic college.