LORENZETTI, Ambrogio
(b. ca. 1290, Siena, d. 1348, Siena)

Effects of Bad Government on the Countryside (detail)

1338-40
Fresco
Palazzo Pubblico, Siena

In the hilly countryside the only activities are ones of death and destruction, setting fire to isolated houses and whole villages. The countryside is bare and barren, the trees bear no fruit and no one is cultivating the land.




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