Ambrogio Lorenzetti finishes Good and Bad Government

1338

In Siena's Palazzo Pubblico, Lorenzetti completed an allegorical fresco cycle showing the effects of justice and tyranny on city and countryside. Peasants thresh wheat, ladies dance, merchants trade in a sunlit city; under bad government, bandits rule, farms burn, and wolves prowl the fields. It was secular political painting's most ambitious medieval statement.