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Artwork: Peace and Fortitude (detail from Good Government)

Artist: Ambrogio Lorenzetti (active 1319-47)

Created: 1338-1339

Medium: Fresco

Location: Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy

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“Ambrogio Lorenzetti (active 1319-47) pays homage in the enormous fresco of Good and Bad Government in the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, to Simone Martini who might well have imagined the delicate reclining image of Peace and Fortitude.” (ML)

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Artwork: Good Government (detail)

Artist: Ambrogio Lorenzetti (active 1319-47)

Created: 1338-1339

Medium: Fresco

Location: Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy

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…”More vividly his own are Ambrogio’s observations of life in the Commune, men toiling, nobles hawking, and the fields and buildings of Siena. Good and Bad Government are not shown by dramatic anecdotes (as Dirk Bouts in Flanders was to paint but through the panorama of a whole society.

Such large decorative schemes seldom came the way of Northern painters, and without the opportunity they lost too the chance of that large public which Italian artists from the first enjoyed. In Italy, where the climate allowed frescoes, the pictures and the building they decorated could be integrated into a whole; and this further freedom encouraged grand concepts, allowing men to paint their own kind on human or even superhuman scale.” (ML)

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