Siena Exhibition @ The Met Tour with Page Knox

Guided Tour of Siena: The Rise Of Painting at the Met with Dr. Page Knox

Tuesday, January 21, 2024
Lunch in the Petrie Court Cafe at Noon (optional), followed by tour 1:30-3pm

Join at The Metropolitan Museum of Art for lunch (optional) and a guided tour of this must-see exhibition Siena: The Rise Of Painting 1300-1350.  Art historian and Columbia University Professor, Dr. Page Knox will lead this special visit at the Met on Tuesday, January 21.  Please indicate if you would like to join a group lunch at The Met’s Petrie Court Cafe at Noon before the tour (additional cost).  Located in the spectacular sculpture gallery, the cafe offers Mediterranean-accented menu of cheese and charcuterie boards, sandwiches, salads, baked goods, coffee, wine, beer, and cocktails.

Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 examines an exceptional moment at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance and the pivotal role of Sienese artists—including Duccio, Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, and Simone Martini—in defining Western painting. In the decades leading up to the catastrophic onset of the plague around 1350, Siena was the site of phenomenal artistic innovation and activity. While Florence is often positioned as the center of the Renaissance, this presentation offers a fresh perspective on the importance of Siena, from Duccio’s profound influence on a new generation of painters to the development of narrative altarpieces and the dissemination of artistic styles beyond Italy.

Drawing on the outstanding collections of The Met and the National Gallery, London, the exhibition includes more than 100 works by a remarkable group of Sienese artists. It features paintings alongside sculptures, metalwork, and textiles, ranging from large works made for public display to intimate objects created for private devotion. Although none of these artists survived the plague of circa 1350, their achievements had an immeasurable impact on painters and theorists in the centuries that followed.

Dr. Page Knox is an adjunct professor in the Art History Department of Columbia University. She works in a variety of capacities as a contractual lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art where she gives public gallery talks and lectures in special exhibitions as well as the permanent collection, teaches classes at the museum, and leads groups for Indagare and Travel with the Met.

The group will meet in the lobby of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street) by 1:25pm (or at noon if you are joining for lunch).

We recommend taking the following trains from CT to Grand Central:  from New Canaan – 9:38am (arrives 10:56)  OR from Darien – 10:18am (arrives 11:23am) OR from Stamford -10:28am (arrives 11:23am). You can also disembark at 125th-Harlem and take a taxi or the subway to the Met.  Please confirm the train schedules closer to the date.

Register below, space is limited.
Cost: $65 CBAC Members | $80 Non-members