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.

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- One of the most striking frescoes of the Renaissance is to be found in the council chamber in Siena. It has an unusual subject. Painted by Ambrogio Lorenzetti in 1339, just a ...