Mike Wiggins

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Peaceful Country, detail from Effects of Good Government in the City and in the Country, east wall, Sala della Pace (fig. 14-16A), Palazzo Pubblico (fig. 14-15), Siena, Italy, 1338–1339. Fresco. This sweeping view of the countryside is one of the first instances of landscape painting in Western art since antiquity. The winged figure of Security promises safety to all who live under Sienese law.