Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Effects of Good Government 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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Effects of Good Government on Town and Country
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Alternate Title:
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Effetti del Buon Governo in città e campagna
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Image View:
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Detail, view of city architecture with attempt at perspective
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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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Measurements:
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14.4 m (length, wall with fresco)
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Inscription:
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Inscription, banner held by Justice (translated): "Without fear every man may travel freely and each may till and sow, so long as this commune shall maintain this lady [Justice] sovereign, for she has stripped the wicked of all power.”
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Subjects:
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allegory; cityscape; cycles or series; landscape; 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 Siena. While the Sala dei Nove (meeting chamber of the governing Nine) is an important historical document, its pictorial innovations are still more significant. In the Effects of Good Government, on the east wall, the cityscape displays a spatial organization unique for the period. Even more dramatic is the depiction of the surrounding countryside: the first panoramic landscape since antiquity, it is organized in a manner that would ultimately influence painters as far afield as France and the Netherlands. The countryside provides views of villas and farms in the area around Siena and a nascent conception of aerial perspective. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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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-EGG-A08
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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