Timothy Hyman is well known both as a writer on art and a painter. He was elected a Royal Academicianin 2011 and is an honorary research fellow at University College London. He has exhibited widely and his work is in many public collections, including the British Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Deutsche Bank Collection. He was lead curator of Tate’s major Stanley Spencer retrospective exhibition and has written a pioneering monograph on Bhupen Khakhar. His articles have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement and the London Magazine, and he is the author of Bonnard and Sienese Painting, both published by Thames & Hudson.

'An unimprovable union of exceptionally acute looking, magical prose and authoritative scholarship … a wonderfully balanced account of a woefully neglected school' - David Ekserdjian, The Times Literary Supplement

• Introduction: ’An Art Born Amidst City Streets’: The Image of the City 1. Duccio and the Religion of the CommuneThe Expanded IconPisans and ParisiansThe MaestàNarrative and Predella'From Greek, Back into Latin’ 2. Simone Martini: ‘The Sweet New Style’In the French High FashionThe Montefiore Chapel and Franciscan NarrativeSimone in Siena 1328–33The Guidoriccio and Barna ControversiesWith Petrarch in Avignon: ‘il mio Simon’ 3. Pietro Lorenzetti: Towards a Franciscan ArtThe Passion Cycle at Assisi'A Sweetly Passionate Abandonment to Feeling’New MajestiesImagery of the Journey: Dante and Blessed UmiltàA New Birth 4. Ambrogio Lorenzetti: The Golden Age ReturnsIn the Service of Ben ComunThe Image of a Just Society'The Space of Vernacular Style’The Winter WallThe Cosmographer 5. After the Black Death (1348–1420)Bartolo and Taddeo: ‘Patent Mediocrities’?The Fountain and the Font: Jacopo della Quercia'Lowliness’: Bernardino and the Sienese Saints 6. Second Flowering: SassettaAn Alternative RenaissanceFrancis, Jester of GodAn Agglomeration of GlimpsesVerticality 7. Giovanni di Paolo: The Chessboard JourneyDeath and the Dante IlluminationsThe John the Baptist CyclesThe Storyteller 8. The Lost Cause: From the Master of the Osservanza to Francesco di GiorgioAsciano and the Shared IdiomTowards PienzaFrancesco di Giorgio and ‘Mathematical Humanism’Discarding the ‘Humble Style’ Epilogue: The Rediscovery

Timothy Hyman is well known both as a writer on art and a painter. He was elected a Royal Academicianin 2011 and is an honorary research fellow at University College London. He has exhibited widely and his work is in many public collections, including the British Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Deutsche Bank Collection. He was lead curator of Tate’s major Stanley Spencer retrospective exhibition and has written a pioneering monograph on Bhupen Khakhar. His articles have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement and the London Magazine, and he is the author of Bonnard and Sienese Painting, both published by Thames & Hudson.

'An unimprovable union of exceptionally acute looking, magical prose and authoritative scholarship … a wonderfully balanced account of a woefully neglected school' - David Ekserdjian, The Times Literary Supplement

• Introduction: ’An Art Born Amidst City Streets’: The Image of the City 1. Duccio and the Religion of the CommuneThe Expanded IconPisans and ParisiansThe MaestàNarrative and Predella'From Greek, Back into Latin’ 2. Simone Martini: ‘The Sweet New Style’In the French High FashionThe Montefiore Chapel and Franciscan NarrativeSimone in Siena 1328–33The Guidoriccio and Barna ControversiesWith Petrarch in Avignon: ‘il mio Simon’ 3. Pietro Lorenzetti: Towards a Franciscan ArtThe Passion Cycle at Assisi'A Sweetly Passionate Abandonment to Feeling’New MajestiesImagery of the Journey: Dante and Blessed UmiltàA New Birth 4. Ambrogio Lorenzetti: The Golden Age ReturnsIn the Service of Ben ComunThe Image of a Just Society'The Space of Vernacular Style’The Winter WallThe Cosmographer 5. After the Black Death (1348–1420)Bartolo and Taddeo: ‘Patent Mediocrities’?The Fountain and the Font: Jacopo della Quercia'Lowliness’: Bernardino and the Sienese Saints 6. Second Flowering: SassettaAn Alternative RenaissanceFrancis, Jester of GodAn Agglomeration of GlimpsesVerticality 7. Giovanni di Paolo: The Chessboard JourneyDeath and the Dante IlluminationsThe John the Baptist CyclesThe Storyteller 8. The Lost Cause: From the Master of the Osservanza to Francesco di GiorgioAsciano and the Shared IdiomTowards PienzaFrancesco di Giorgio and ‘Mathematical Humanism’Discarding the ‘Humble Style’ Epilogue: The Rediscovery

Timothy Hyman is well known both as a writer on art and a painter. He was elected a Royal Academicianin 2011 and is an honorary research fellow at University College London. He has exhibited widely and his work is in many public collections, including the British Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Deutsche Bank Collection. He was lead curator of Tate’s major Stanley Spencer retrospective exhibition and has written a pioneering monograph on Bhupen Khakhar. His articles have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement and the London Magazine, and he is the author of Bonnard and Sienese Painting, both published by Thames & Hudson.

'An unimprovable union of exceptionally acute looking, magical prose and authoritative scholarship … a wonderfully balanced account of a woefully neglected school' - David Ekserdjian, The Times Literary Supplement

• Introduction: ’An Art Born Amidst City Streets’: The Image of the City 1. Duccio and the Religion of the CommuneThe Expanded IconPisans and ParisiansThe MaestàNarrative and Predella'From Greek, Back into Latin’ 2. Simone Martini: ‘The Sweet New Style’In the French High FashionThe Montefiore Chapel and Franciscan NarrativeSimone in Siena 1328–33The Guidoriccio and Barna ControversiesWith Petrarch in Avignon: ‘il mio Simon’ 3. Pietro Lorenzetti: Towards a Franciscan ArtThe Passion Cycle at Assisi'A Sweetly Passionate Abandonment to Feeling’New MajestiesImagery of the Journey: Dante and Blessed UmiltàA New Birth 4. Ambrogio Lorenzetti: The Golden Age ReturnsIn the Service of Ben ComunThe Image of a Just Society'The Space of Vernacular Style’The Winter WallThe Cosmographer 5. After the Black Death (1348–1420)Bartolo and Taddeo: ‘Patent Mediocrities’?The Fountain and the Font: Jacopo della Quercia'Lowliness’: Bernardino and the Sienese Saints 6. Second Flowering: SassettaAn Alternative RenaissanceFrancis, Jester of GodAn Agglomeration of GlimpsesVerticality 7. Giovanni di Paolo: The Chessboard JourneyDeath and the Dante IlluminationsThe John the Baptist CyclesThe Storyteller 8. The Lost Cause: From the Master of the Osservanza to Francesco di GiorgioAsciano and the Shared IdiomTowards PienzaFrancesco di Giorgio and ‘Mathematical Humanism’Discarding the ‘Humble Style’ Epilogue: The Rediscovery