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The Palazzo Pubblico (town hall) is a palace in Siena, Tuscany, central Italy. Construction began in 1297 to serve as the seat of the Republic of Siena 's government, which consisted of the Podestà and Council of Nine, the elected officials who performed executive functions (and judicial ones in secular matters). [ 1 ]
The frescoes on the walls of the Room of the Nine (Sala dei Nove) or Room of Peace (Sala della Pace) in Siena's Palazzo Pubblico are one of the masterworks of early Renaissance secular painting. The "nine" was the oligarchal assembly of guild and monetary interests that governed the republic.
From 1287 to 1355, during the rule of the Noveschi, the Republic experienced a period of great political and economic splendor: new buildings were commissioned, including that of the Cathedral of Siena, the Palazzo Pubblico, and a substantial part of the city walls completed. This government is in fact defined by historians as the "good ...
Palazzo Pubblico, Siena. Episcopal Palace, Siena; Palazzo Bandini-Piccolomini; Palazzo Bichi Ruspoli; Palazzo Bindi Sergardi; Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo, Siena; Castellare degli Ugurgieri; Palazzo Celsi Pollini; Palazzo Chigi alla Postierla; Palazzo Chigi-Saracini; Palazzo Fani Mignanelli; Palazzo Fineschi Segardi; Palazzo Francesconi ...
The paintings are located in Siena's Palazzo Pubblico—specifically in the Sala dei Nove ("Salon of Nine"), the council hall of the Republic of Siena's nine executive magistrates, [2] elected officials who performed executive functions (and judicial ones in secular matters). The paintings have been construed as being "designed to remind the ...
These frescoes eventually filled two walls of the meeting room in the Palazzo Pubblico. Between 1314 and 1331 at least seven castles were painted. Documents show that Simone Martini painted at least four of them: Montemassi and Sasso Forte in 1330, and Arcidosso and Castel Del Piano in 1331. [ 2 ]
During the Siena War where the Sienese and French armies faced each other against the Florentine and Spanish armies, besieged Siena on August 2, 1554 and surrendered the city in April 1555, Porto Ercole still remained to be conquered, where the French commander Charles de Carbonnières, after having awaited the arrival of Marshal Piero Strozzi ...
Guidoriccio was the son of Niccolò da Fogliano, condottiero and lord of Reggio Emilia.In 1327 he was hired by the Republic of Siena to attack the possessions of the rival Pisa and the Aldobrandeschi in the Maremma and Mount Amiata areas.