NEW YORK — American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony D. Romero’s TED talk was published today. It issued a call to action for Americans to fight against the "bad government" of the ...

On April 25, I was thrilled to deliver a TED Talk in Vancouver. I’m a lover of Italian art, and one of my favorite old masters is Ambrogio Lorenzetti. In 1339, Lorenzetti finished a series of frescos ...

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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 ...

The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350,” which debuted at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York before traveling to the National Gallery in London. In the beginning of Trecento Pictoriality: ...

Deeper meanings are to be found within the images themselves and the way they are painted.” His subject is the six scenes in the fresco Good and Bad Government by Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1290-1348), at ...

This paper focuses on the intricate allegory of Ambrogio Lorenzetti's "Good Government" mural in the council hall of the nine executive magistrates of the state of Siena in the city's Palazzo Pubblico ...

In the 1920s, the painter Fernand Léger saw a creative potential in cinema – in its ability to "isolate the object or the fragment of an object and to present it on the screen in close-ups of the ...

Recorded in the Lira 389 account book of the Siena State Archive are repayments of loans made by the Commune of Siena between 1340 and 1342. This book provides new documentary evidence relating to ...