The Allegory of Good and Bad Government

The city half of Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Effects of Good Government, in the Sala dei Nove of Siena's Palazzo Pubblico, the hall where the Nine who ran the republic met. Painted in the late 1330s, it shows Siena at peace: shops open, builders at work on the rooftops, and a ring of dancers in the…

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