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Siena’s painters — Duccio, Simone Martini, the Lorenzetti — were long treated as a provincial detour from the Florentine road to the Renaissance. Walter Rothes argues the opposite: that the Sienese line, with its Byzantine gold and its Gothic grace, shaped Italian art as decisively as Florence did.Published at Strasbourg in 1904, it belongs to the German art-historical scholarship that reshaped the study of the Italian primitives.This is a faithful print-on-demand facsimile of the 1904 Strasbourg (J. H. Ed. Heitz) edition, reproduced in full from a library copy. The historical text is reproduced without modification; only the format, margins and legibility have been reset for modern printing.