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: ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Carmine Crucifix returns to Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena ...

”Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”- Picasso. We recently returned from a whirlwind trip to Italy that touched on many of the unique sights this country has to offer. Late October weather ...

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 ...

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 ...

This slim volume by theologian Hanna Reichel is a first aid kit for people who are trying to reckon with an imperial presidency.

The glowing works from Siena, now at the Met, are revelatory for their emotional intensity and 24-karat beauty. Pietro Lorenzetti’s three-level “Tarlati Altarpiece” from about 1320 in the exhibition ...