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Part of that fresco is Peaceful City. This panoramic fresco represents several scenes indicating the life of Siena and her environment in the fourteenth century. This painting provides the first accurate panoramic view of city and country (landscape) since antiquity; viewers can identify the city of Siena, as opposed to ambiguous settings found ...
The better preserved "well-governed town and country" is an unrivaled pictorial encyclopedia of incidents in a peaceful medieval "borgo" and countryside. The first evidence of the existence of the hourglass can be found in the fresco, Allegory of Bad Government and Its Effects on Town and Country.
This fresco depicts two men standing alongside a town on a hill. The fresco is in poor condition from being painted over and its origin and intent remain unknown. It, also, is damaged by Lorenzetti's circular map of the world. [6] Siena was decimated by the Black Death in 1348; approximately half of its population died in the plague. The ...
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The murals in the Palazzo Pubblico were commissioned by the Council of Nine, Siena's ruling body. The murals capture important triumphs in the history of Siena. From the beginning of the 14th century the city council commissioned murals of castles and cities that were conquered by Siena.
Fresco paintings in Siena (3 P) M. Paintings in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Siena) (3 P) P. Paintings in the Palazzo Pubblico (4 P) Paintings in the Pinacoteca ...
Siena, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo. Lorenzetti's last major work (1342) was a triptych altarpiece, the Birth of the Virgin, commissioned for Siena Cathedral. [30] This painting in tempera on panel, like many Sienese paintings of the time, celebrates the life of the Virgin, the city's patron saint. [31]