Nel 1999 in a completely unexpected way, during recovery work on a church in Via dei Fusari, portions of wall paintings were uncovered, located in a room beneath the pulpit of the Cathedral. The emptying work of the new room took about three years and in the end experts from all over the world, art historians and archaeologists were faced with an astonishing discovery that would add new important pieces to the history of medieval art. A room completely painted on 180sqm of wall surface dating back to the second half of the 1200s. Sealed and filled with debris during the 1300s and remained buried and hidden for about 7 centuries. Exceptional paintings, original colors, subjects and intact architectures were thus brought to light giving a further testimony of the Sienese school of the 1200s and its major exponents:
Guido da Siena, Dietisalvi di Speme, Guido di Graziano, Rinaldo da Siena.
Information about the Crypt and stairs of San Giovanni
Duomo,
Siena (Siena)
0577283048
Source: MIBACT
