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    Palazzo Pubblico (town hall) is a palace in Siena, Tuscany, central Italy. Construction began in 1297 to serve as the seat of the Republic of Siena's...
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    intellectual heritage. Siena's distinctive Gothic architecture, exemplified by the iconic Duomo di Siena and the Palazzo Pubblico, remains a testament to...
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    Jacopo della Quercia (category Artists from Siena)
    (1408–1419) - Siena Virtue (1409–19) - Marble, height 135 cm, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena Hope (1409–19) - Marble, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena Acca Laurentia...
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    buildings were commissioned, including that of the Cathedral of Siena, the Palazzo Pubblico, and a substantial part of the city walls completed. This government...
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    Ambrogio Lorenzetti (category Painters from Siena)
    Government in the Sala dei Nove (Salon of Nine or Council Room) in Siena's Palazzo Pubblico. His elder brother was the painter Pietro Lorenzetti. Lorenzetti...
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    1871, inspired by the Palazzo Vecchio Bradford City Hall, 1873, clock and bell tower based on the Palazzo Vecchio Palazzo Pubblico, the city hall of San...
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    Guidoriccio da Fogliano at the Siege of Montemassi (category Paintings in the Palazzo Pubblico)
    fresco on the western wall of the Sala del Mappamondo in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena. It shows Guidoriccio da Fogliano, the commander of the Sienese...
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    these is found in a 1408 fresco by Taddeo di Bartolo at the Palazzo Pubblico chapel in Siena, Italy, which depicts an angel playing a "keyed viola". Recently...
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    thought to have a 19th-century neo-medieval façade based on the city's Palazzo Pubblico; however, restoration in 2022 revealed that it is mostly original....
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    still in Siena, Italy, but others elsewhere. Other noted examples of the Maestà are Simone Martini's Maestà in the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, or Cimabue's...
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    The Allegory of Good and Bad Government (category Paintings in the Palazzo Pubblico)
    are located in Siena's Palazzo Pubblico—specifically in the Sala dei Nove ("Salon of Nine"), the council hall of the Republic of Siena's nine executive...
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    Domenico Beccafumi (category Painters from Siena)
    Palatina, Florence Frescoes – Palazzo Bindi-Segardi, Siena Frescoes of scenes from Roman historyPalazzo Pubblico, Siena (1529–1535) The Holy Family with...
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    renowned worldwide for its beauty and architectural integrity. The Palazzo Pubblico and its Torre del Mangia, as well as various palazzi signorili, surround...
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    Simone Martini (category Painters from Siena)
    works is the Maestà of 1315 in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena. Lippo Memmi painted a similar Maestà for the Palazzo Comunale in San Gimignano shortly afterwards...
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    important early series of portraits of famous men survive in the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena and in the Sala Virorum Illustrium ("Hall of Illustrious Men")...
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  • timeline of the history of the city of Siena, Tuscany, Italy. 1st C. CE – Saena Julia founded by Romans. 1205 – Palazzo Tolomei built (approximate date). 1233...
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    Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena Piero della Francesca, Chiesa di San Francesco, Arezzo Ghirlandaio...
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    Maestà (Simone Martini) (category Paintings in the Palazzo Pubblico)
    wall of the Sala del Mappamondo (or Sala del Consiglio) in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena. It was created from 1312 to 1315 and is considered one of the...
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    the early years of the Guelph era, before the construction of the Palazzo Pubblico in the Piazza del Campo, and it also functioned as a bank and private...
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    Trevi Fountain, Rome Doge's Palace and St Mark's Campanile, Venice Palazzo Pubblico, Siena Villa Capra (La Rotonda), Vicenza Trulli of Alberobello Mount Vesuvius...
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    bands under them, the ogival triple mullioned windows, inspired by Siena's Palazzo Pubblico. It was further renovated by architect Pierluigi Spadolini during...
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    Fontanella Borghese, Rome (1990), Plymouth City Museum (1991), Palazzo Pubblico, Siena (1995), Mestna Gallery, Ljubljana (1996) and Galleria Comunale...
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    Taddeo di Bartolo (category Painters from Siena)
    Siena. He also painted allegories and figures from Roman history (1413–14), and the Funeral of the Virgin (1409) at the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena. His...
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    Segna di Bonaventura (category Painters from Siena)
    of the Biccherna in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena. In 1317 he painted an altar panel for the convent of Lecceto (near Siena). In 1319 he repaired a figure...
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  • (captain contrada) because in the past its soldiers mounted guard at the Palazzo Pubblico. A famous member of Onda was the sculptor Giovanni Duprè, after whom...
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    religious, such as Simone Martini's fresco of the Maestà, in the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena. Portraiture was uncommon in the 14th and early 15th centuries...
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  • Good and Bad Government (1338–40) by Ambrogio Lorenzetti in the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena. "Not a Heel" - 3:50 "Aw Come Aw Wry #5" - 0:45 "Joe Tex, These...
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    Ferrovia Leopolda (Florence-Pisa-Livorno, with a branch line from Empoli to Siena) and the Ferrovia Maria Antonia (Florence-Prato-Pistoia-Lucca), while the...
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    Papal States from 7 September 1159 until his death in 1181. A native of Siena, Alexander became pope after a contested election, but had to spend much...
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  • Lorenzetti paints The Allegory of Good and Bad Government frescoes in Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Tuscany 1339: Italian painter and architect Taddeo Gaddi suffers...
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