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Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Type Figure Region Italy Time c. 1290–1348 Also known as Ambrogio Lorenzetti、Ambrogio di Lorenzetti

Ambrogio Lorenzetti (c. 1290–1348) was a 14th-century Sienese painter famed for the Palazzo Pubblico frescoes Allegory of Good and Bad Government, dy…

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  1. c. 1310–1330Siena · SienaTrained in Siena and its surroundings, he worked alongside his brother Pietro Lorenzetti, taking early church and civic commissions and gradually developing a realistic style and narrative compositional skill.
  2. 1337–1340Palazzo Pubblico, Siena · SienaIn the Sala dei Nove of Siena's Palazzo Pubblico he painted the frescoes Allegory of Good and Bad Government and Effects of Good Government, inaugurating a peak of 14th-century secular painting through civic political allegory and perspectival landscapes.
  3. 1340–1348Siena · SienaHe continued receiving Sienese commissions in the 1340s; during the Black Death pandemic of 1348 he is believed to have contracted the plague and died in Siena, abruptly ending his creative activity.

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