ARTHIST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ambrogio Lorenzetti

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30 Apr 2018

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Week 1.2

The effects of Good Government in the City and in the Country, Lorenzetti 1338-1339 - it took 15

months to complete, three large walls

Further south of Italy to Siena and look at a secular work of art, a series of frescos painted for the Town

Hall by Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Lorenzetti was commissioned to paint frescos in the council room, also known as the Chamber of the

Nine – referring to the Noe, a ody of ie goerors/ haer of peae i “iea’s Palazzo Pulio

(town hall).

• Asked to paint scenes that represented good and bad government allegorically (meaning to

represent abstract ideas and concepts using physical forms and symbols)

aoe the effets of good goeret i the ity ad i the outry

It’s a paoraa ith hills ad surroudig Tusa outryside. “trategies of represetatio oie

realism and idealism.

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