Should You Paint Your Fireplace? Updating a fireplace can be costly. But you know what isn’t? A gallon or two of paint!

Last week I wrote about the core artists -- Duccio, brothers Ambrogio and Pietro Lorenzetti, and Simone Martini, not household names -- and how the curators develop core themes in Sienese art.

brightly colored Arnoldi painting hung above a 1940s French Art Deco sideboard whose inlaid Macassar-ebony surfaces echo the ...