Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Allegory of Bad Government and its Effects on Town and Country
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Allegory of Bad Government and its Effects on Town and Country
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Alternate Title:
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Allegoria del Cattivo Governo e suoi effetti in città e campagna
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Image View:
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Detail, the figure of Justice, bound and defeated at the foot of Tyranny
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Creator:
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Ambrogio Lorenzetti (Italian painter, 1285-ca. 1348)
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Location:
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repository: Palazzo Pubblico (Siena, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Sala dei Nove (Council Room, also called Sala della Pace)
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GPS:
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+43.318333+11.331389
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Date:
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1338-1339 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Fourteenth century; Gothic (Medieval)
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Work Type 1:
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fresco (painting)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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pigment on plaster
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Technique:
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fresco painting (technique)
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Subjects:
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allegory; cityscape; cycles or series; Sienese; Republic of Siena
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Description:
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Among Ambrogio’s most significant works are those for the Palazzo Pubblico in the Sala dei Nove (meeting chamber of the governing Nine). Ambrogio chose the best-illuminated walls for Good Government and Its Effects, leaving Bad Government in the shadows on the shorter wall which has also suffered considerable damage. Bad Government uses the same forms and compositional devices as the other frescoes in the room, but inverts them. The malevolent-looking figure representing Bad Government, pointedly labeled as Tyranny, is enthroned and stares hieratically out at the observer. (Source: Web Gallery of Art; http://www.wga.hu/index.html)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-LOREN-PP-ABG-A09
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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