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.
In context
Also in 1338 (4 other events on record)
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.