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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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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