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  • adjective Of or pertaining to Siena
  • noun Native or inhabitant of Siena

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Examples

  • He is also co-editor of the Art/Lit mag called Sienese Shredder which recently published visual/text poems from John Ashberry.

    BTW, AWP 2008

  • He is also co-editor of the Art/Lit mag called Sienese Shredder which recently published visual/text poems from John Ashberry.

    Archive 2008-01-01 2008

  • [150] On their coins the Sienese struck this legend: "Sena vetus Civitas

    Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts John Addington Symonds 1866

  • There are gilded paintings by Sienese and Florentine artists—stigmataed saints, stern unhappy angels, stiff Madonnas with their baby-men Christs suckling from apple-round breasts.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • There are gilded paintings by Sienese and Florentine artists—stigmataed saints, stern unhappy angels, stiff Madonnas with their baby-men Christs suckling from apple-round breasts.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • An instrumental demonstration of rectitude, drawn by Amelia Amelia after sketch by Iacopo Mariano Taccola, Sienese engineer and mentor to Francesco di Giorgio.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • In Siena, we bought a box of fresh Riccarelli, diamond-shaped traditional Sienese cookies made with ground almonds.

    Recipe: Pine Nut Cookies (Biscotti con Pignoli) Laurie Constantino 2007

  • In Siena, we bought a box of fresh Riccarelli, diamond-shaped traditional Sienese cookies made with ground almonds.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Laurie Constantino 2007

  • The model for two of Raphael's most famous Madonnas was a Sienese baker's daughter named Margharita di Luti, who was probably Raphael's lover.

    Where Have All the Muses Gone? 2009

  • It was particularly popular in Sienese painting during the fourteenth century and in particular in the work of Simone Martini at Avignon.

    The Long Lost Diptych 2009

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