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Historical Archive: Allegory of Good and Bad Government Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, which has its own exterior page fresco Ambrogio Lorenzetti 1338-1340 Sala dei Nove (council chamber), 14.04 x 7.7 meters (46' x 25' 3") full room to north full room to north with person for scale ceiling structure at north wall north wall: Divine Wisdom, Justice making rulings, Concord; Commune of Siena enthroned with Peace, Strength, Prudence, Mercy, Temperance, and Justice, under Faith, Charity, Hope. Much of right side overpainted c.1360. north and east walls corner of north and east walls, figural part; in bottom frieze Grammar and Dialectic east wall with oblique north wall east wall with oblique north wall, with person for scale upper east wall with oblique north wall and ceiling full east wall: Good Government east wall, north end: Good Government in the city (Siena); extreme left overpainted c.1360 Good Government: crowned woman with riders, dice game in tavern Good Government: tavern, dancers, shoe shop, teaching Good Government: women or male actors dancing with tambourine player Good Government, top: building activity; bottom: shoe shop, teaching, food and spice shop, wood transport, cloth workers east wall, south end: city wall, Good Government in the country Good Government in the country, with hovering Security; bottom frieze: Astronomy, Philosophy south window in 16th-c. surround west wall with oblique north wall, top left: planets west wall and oblique north wall with ceiling west wall, north end: Bad Government Bad Government: Tyranny enthroned with Cruelty, Betrayal, Fraud, Rage, Division, and War under Avarice, Pride, and Vainglory; Justice bound at feet Bad Government: Italian inscription and tyrant Nero Bad Government: Fraud, Tyranny holding poss. inverted chalice or paten on stand, goat at feet, Rage Bad Government: Rage, Division, War oblique west wall: Bad Government in the city, Tyranny with vices; and north wall Bad Government in the country with hovering Fear Bad Government in the country: Fear Bad Government in the country: ruined church top right, burning village, soldiers