I’m a lover of Italian art, and one of my favorite old masters is Ambrogio Lorenzetti ... We experience the effects of good government in our world, just as Lorenzetti did in his life. But it’s the ...

Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s painting known as “The Allegory of Good Government and Bad Government ... Then, in the panel known as “The Effects of Bad Government,” an omen for posterity.

In my office at the Fletcher School are re-creations of Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s “Allegory of ... frescoes depict what good and bad government look like, as well as the effects of those types ...

In his celebrated Allegory and Effects of Good and Bad Government (1338–39), Ambrogio Lorenzetti depicts an idealised Siena as the model of civic and social order. Against a panoramic backdrop of ...

The Effects of Good Government in the City, part of a cycle known as ‘The Allegory of Good and Bad Government’, 1337–40, by Ambrogio Lorenzetti (about 1290–1348), 9ft by 46ft the entire cycle, Palazzo ...

For a masterful analysis of the political philosophy embedded in this fresco, see Quentin Skinner, "Ambrogio Lorenzetti and the Portrayal of Virtuous Government" and "Ambrogio Lorenzetti on the Power ...

The effects of good government are depicted: sowing crops, harvesting, marriage, conviviality, prosperity and happiness. Bad government, which, on the other hand, is inspired by division ...