There are moments when history reaches across the centuries with startling clarity. Standing in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena ...

Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s painting known as “The Allegory of Good Government and Bad Government,” from 1339, is thought to be Europe’s first landscape painting since the fall of Rome, 900 years earlier.

Long before the Renaissance swept across Europe, Italy was the birthplace of an artistic revolution spearheaded by masters such as Giotto, Duccio, Simone Martini and the Lorenzetti brothers, a ...

There are moments when history reaches across the centuries with startling clarity. Standing in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, Italy, and looking at Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Allegory of Good and Bad ...

Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Carmine Crucifix returns to Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena after Restoration Coordinated by MiC's Direzione Regionale Musei della Toscana with the Support of Friends of Florence ...

There are many answers to this question, so using the term without explanation can be confusing—and even dangerous. Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, poetry, and ...

For a masterful analysis of the political philosophy embedded in this fresco, see Quentin Skinner, "Ambrogio Lorenzetti and the Portrayal of Virtuous Government" and "Ambrogio Lorenzetti on the Power ...

Siena has recently enjoyed a renaissance in the public estimation. This year, the blockbuster exhibition Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300-1350 (at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and London’s ...

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