Starting with Coppo di Marcovaldo and Guido da Siena and featuring painters like Duccio di Buoninsegna, the Lorenzetti brothers
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| Pietro Lorenzetti |
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| Duccio di Buoninsegna |
(Ambrozio and Pietro), Simone Martini and others, the Sienese School emerged in the 13th century and thrived through the 14th century as a forerunner of the Renaissance. Influenced by the Byzantine art mainly and the Romanesque art the artists of the school introduced new subjects, perspective (albeit not as elaborate as their Renaissance succesors'),
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| Ambrozio Lorenzetti |
complex architectural background, scenes of secular life but maintained the Byzantine reverence which is one of the basic differences with the contemporary school of Florence. Duccio, the most prominent of all the artists of the Sienese School is said to have been taught painting in Konstantinople and is the one who introduced international Gothic style to Italy.
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| Pietro Lorenzetti |
