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    The Biccherna was the magistrate or chancellery of finance from the 13th to the 14th century for the republic and then city of Siena, region of Tuscany...
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    Republic of Siena. Monks from the abbey routinely served as Camarlinghi di Biccherna, i.e. high magistrates of the main financial institution of the republic...
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    about 1298 to 1331. In 1306 he painted a panel for the office of the Biccherna in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena. In 1317 he painted an altar panel for...
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    Speme and Guido di Graziano, which are documented with the painting of Biccherna book covers for the Sienese commune in the 1270s. Some equate Guido as...
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    September 1986 to celebrate the centenary of the abolition of the Balia and Biccherna governments. In earlier times, the third Palio was a way to honor distinguished...
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    Guild in 1355. In 1352 he executed a Coronation of the Virgin for the Biccherna, the Sienese Ministry of Finance. In 1359, together with Nello Betti,...
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    least of the merchants. In 1263 the arms of the 'Four Provisors' of the Biccherna at Siena were painted on the cover of the tax-book for that year inaugurating...
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    she looked like. The earliest proof of its existence is a record in the biccherna on the purchase of black and white fabrics to make 77 banners. The city...
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    first mention of him is dated 1250 and was found in the records of the Biccherna or financial administration of Siena, a mention now lost but transcribed...
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    Vicolo del Sasso, in Siena, Italy. Building at the site was begun by the Biccherna for monks of the Silvestrine order in 1345. In 1440 it was passed to the...
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    documented since 1293, prior to this it was a simple cistern. In 1351, the Biccherna funded construction of the fountain which was only completed in 1452....
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    the British Library received a restitution claim for Davis 768, the Biccherna Panel, a fifteenth century painted wooden panel attributed to the workshop...
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  • French) La Peinture gothique. (in French) Les Tablettes peintes de la "Biccherna" et de la "Gabella" de l'ancienne république de Sienne, Milano-Firenze...
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    the Siena cathedral. He is known to have painted book-covers for the Biccherna, and was several times a member of the Grand Council of Siena. He frescoed...
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    Bulgarini is in 1338 for a payment made for painting the cover of the Biccherna, the book containing the financial transactions for the Commune starting...
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  • sources that discuss the Great Company in greater length include the Biccherna budget in Siena and the Cronica Senesi. The former discusses some of the...
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    was the fresco of the Coronation of the Virgin in the Cancelleria di Biccherna, for the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena. He began to paint four angel heads...
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    Studien (1938) The Royal Art of Astrology (London 1946) Una Tavoletta di Biccherna Nuovamente Scoperta (1950) Man Into Wolf: An Anthropological Interpretation...
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