Political Ideas in Sienese Art: The Frescoes by Ambrogio Lorenzetti and Taddeo di Bartolo in the Palazzo Pubblico
Nicolai Rubinstein — Political Ideas in Sienese Art: The Frescoes by Ambrogio Lorenzetti and Taddeo di Bartolo in the Palazzo Pubblico (1958)Nicolai Rubinstein · 1958 · ArticleDisputedSource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0408 · as of 2026-10-27 · about: Siena under the Nine (1287–1355) · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“Lorenzetti's frescoes of good and bad government in the Palazzo Pubblico express an Aristotelian and Thomist conception of the common good.”
Context. Rubinstein's 1958 reading was the standard interpretation; Skinner argues the frescoes draw on pre-humanist, Ciceronian ideas of civic virtue.
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1Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Buon Governo Frescoes: Two Old Questions, Two New Answers
Quentin Skinner — Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Buon Governo Frescoes: Two Old Questions, Two New Answers (1999)Quentin Skinner · 1999 · ArticleStatus history
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