October 15, 2008

Allegory of Good and Bad Government




One of the great achievements of the Renaissance, and one of the first post-Roman depictions of a real city and its inhabitants in Europe: Ambrogio Lorenzetti's "Allegory of the Effects of Good and Bad Government," late 1340's, in the Palazzo Publica, Sienna.

2 Comments:

Blogger VMM said...

What was he? A COMMUNIST???

October 15, 2008 at 5:24 PM  
Blogger The Front said...

I think it stands comparison to Hogarth's account of Bush's early adulthood...

October 16, 2008 at 6:41 AM  

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