DK Travel : Tuscany : Museums & Galleries

Tuscany : Museums & Galleries

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Liberty

Italian 20th-century Art Nouveau, seen mostly on façades and shop signs.
Macchiaioli

Tuscan cousin of Impressionism (late 19th century).
Mannerism

Late Renaissance, 16th-century offshoot based on the twisting poses and rich colour palette of Michelangelo.
Neoclassical

Based on Classical models and mythological themes (19th century).
Renaissance

Tuscany’s greatest contribution to art history. In their elegant compositions, the 15th and 16th-century Florentine artists developed a more naturalistic style and techniques such as perspective.
Rococo

Baroque gone chaotic, effusive and overwrought (18th century).
Sansepolcro’s Museo Civico

Piero della Francesca’s home town retained some of his greatest, most psychologically penetrating works, including Madonna della Misericordia (1445–62), San Giuliano (1458) and the eerie Resurrection (1463), called the “best picture of the world” by Aldous Huxley.
Siena’s Museo Civico

A battlemented medieval town hall with the best Gothic painting in Siena, including Lorenzetti’s incomparable Allegory of Good and Bad Government .
Siena’s Pinacoteca Nazionale

It may lack towering masterpieces, but this is Tuscany’s best survey of Sienese painting.
Volterra’s Museo Etrusco Guarnacci

One of Tuscany’s top Etruscan museums. Over 600 marble and alabaster funerary urns carved with myths or metaphors for the afterlife, a terracotta sarcophagus lid of an elderly couple, and small bronzes including the elongated boyish figure, Shade of the Evening .