Sienese
Americanadjective
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of or relating to Siena or its people.
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pertaining to or designating the style of painting developed in Siena during the late 13th and 14th centuries, characterized by a use of Byzantine forms and iconography modified by an increased three-dimensional quality, decorative linear rhythms, and harmonious, although sometimes ornamental, color.
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Example Sentences
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Mediobanca and Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena both dropped around 2.8% on reports of a dispute between the Sienese bank’s chief executive and a key investor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
The roundel is an original 14th Century artwork attributed to Sienese painter Bartolommeo Bulgarini.
From BBC • Jan. 28, 2021
These works navigate the divide between abstraction and representation with a form of geometric figuration that owes less to Cubo-Futurism than to de Chirico, architectural rendering and early Renaissance painting of the Sienese kind.
From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2012
In the Sienese illumination, Earth’s a gnarled green marble, the center of zero, something shot clear through to seen, but who inflated the cosmos around it, tossed it out like a blue plastic float?
From Slate • May 15, 2012
Not half as fine," he said to himself, "as the fountain in our Sienese palace!
From The Man with the Double Heart by Hine, Muriel
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