Lorenzetti’s “The Effect of Bad Governance.”
"... The governance of that republic was so fair-minded and so respected that the Sienese people had frescoes made to honor it. The frescoes, painted by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, still can be seen today on the walls of Siena’s city hall, the Palazzo Pubblico. This month, at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, an exhibition opens that showcases art Lorenzetti and his peers made during this flourishing moment in their city’s history: Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350. But to see Lorenzetti’s frescoes and absorb their civic lesson you must travel to Italy and stand in the room where they are painted. I did so, by accident, many years ago. I have never forgotten. ..."
Met Museum - Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350
Laphams Quarterly: The Renaissance of City-States
amazon: Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350
Arnolfo Shows the Plan to Enlarge Florence (detail), by Giorgio Vasari, c. 1564. Palazzo Vecchio Museum, Florence.
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