Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s paintings extend the narrative traditions of fourteenth-century Siena into both religious and civic commissions. His frescoes in the Palazzo Pubblico present Good and Bad Government through allegorical figures and their effects on the city and countryside. Houses, shops, cultivated fields, and groups of people make public order visible through everyday activity. In sacred panels, carefully arranged architecture and gesture organize Christian narratives.