SIENA, LOOKING TOWARDS THE TORRE DEL MANGIA.

Image: www.birminghammuseums.org.uk.

  • Title(s): Siena, looking towards the Torre del Mangia (this web site); Sienna/Siena (Birmingham Art Gallery); Siena (artuk.org).
  • Description: Oil sketch of a view in Siena, Italy, looking towards the Torre del Mangia.
  • Media: “oil on canvas stretched on cork” (artuk.org).
  • Dimensions: “Height: / 426, 573”, “Width: / 327, 473”, “Depth: / 5,20” (Birmingham Art Gallery); “H 42.6 x W 32.7 cm” (artuk.org).
  • Signature/date/other text: none visible on front of exposed canvas.
  • History:
  • Location: Birmingham Art Gallery.

Similar in execution to The Town of Siena, so dated similarly. (The Town of Siena was exhibited 1900, so assumed to date from preceding decade.)

[Up to 2022 incorrectly listed on Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery web site as ‘Assisi,’ since changed to ‘Sienna’. ‘Siena’ (one ‘N’) may be more appropriate, Sienna with two ‘N’s refering to a pigment, with Siena the city having been usually spelled with one ‘N’ since the 1800s.]