Identifier: gri_33125001989728 (find matches)
Title: A history of painting in Italy : Umbria, Florence and Siena from the second to the sixteenth century
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Crowe, J. A. (Joseph Archer), 1825-1896 Cavalcaselle, G. B. (Giovanni Battista), 1820-1897 Strong, S. Arthur (Sandford Arthur), 1863-1904 De Nicola, G Borenius, Tancred, 1885-1948 Douglas, R. Langton (Robert Langton), 1864-1951
Subjects: Painting, Italian
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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ds, he wasemployed in adorning the Sala de Nove or della Pace in thePublic Palace at Siena with frescoes which were completed on the18th of February, 1339.^ Here Ambrogio depicted three vastallegories illustrative of the advantages to be derived from justiceand peace, and of the evils caused by tyranny. The first, above adoor which unhappily cuts off a part of its right corner, hasgiven occasion to much contest, yet seems capable of sufficientexplanation. 1 No. 132 of R. Galleria Antica e Moderna, Florence. * The two scenes of No. 132, as well as the two scenes of No. 136, representevents in the life of St. Nicholas of Bari. Some recent critics do not regardNo. 136 as a work of Ambrogio himself. 2 Vasari, ii., p. 67. * ^ The Madonna in the Duomo has already been referred to by the editor in a listof Pietros works. * See the recoi-ds in Milanesi, Doc. Sen., i., p. 195. Though the subjects arenot given in the records, we assume that the payments refer to the frescoes inthe Sala de Nove.
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