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  • Title: Effects of Good Government (detail)
  • Creator: Lorenzetti, Ambrogio, painter
  • Description: This glimpse inside the city of Siena includes prosperous townspeople conducting trade. Nine women, perhaps personifications of the Muses, dance in the streets without any threat. This contrasts with the Effects of Bad Government (not pictured), which shows a gang of men dragging a woman by her hair.
  • Source: Wikimedia Commons: Web Gallery of Art #13490
  • Rights: Public domain
  • Subject (See Also): Allegory Dance Personification
  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 14
  • Date: 1338-1340
  • Related Work: View the full triptych from Wikimedia Commons: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Hugo_van_der_goes_portinari_triptych_framed.jpg
  • Current Location: Siena, Palazzo Pubblica, Sala dei Nove
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  • Artistic Type (Category): Digital images; Paintings
  • Artistic Type (Material/Technique): Frescoes
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