Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Peaceful City
Breaking from the past, Lorenzetti’s snapshot of Siena city life depicts an ideal city which benefits from an ideal government; this is what life can and should be like under the proper leadership.
Lorenzetti employs vibrant hues of color punctuated with bright highlights. In fact, the entire city is a glow. The tight and orderly designed city is with perspective and height emphasizing the grandeur of this city. The composition is full and well balanced; Lorenzetti made great use of the space allotted to him including the foreground all without overcrowding and over stimulating the viewer.
Action, rarely seen before, radiates from the happy center where the “lucky” citizens of Siena are seen participating in a convivial, happy and much to be envied existence.
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Peaceful Country
Stepping outside of the gates of Siena, Lorenzetti has represented in this first landscape painting since antiquity, the delights that abound. The rolling and majestic hills are delicately painted in soft greens and beiges highlighting the fertileness of the land. The comings and goings of the citizens, with their goods in tow, provides the action of the image. A peaceful community, farmers tend the fields in groups, while passersby engage in conversation. Almost Eden-like in his depiction, Lorenzetti again draws us in with his engaging and romantic look at an idealized contemporary life.
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