Revisiting: Siena

I have a few days off now, and although I’ll be taking lots of new pictures in the days to come there’s others I’ve been going through from the past week. Of the many highlights Siena is certainly among them. It had been years since I’d seen Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s frescoes of Good and Bad Government in the Palazzo Pubblico. Here’s a detail of ‘Good Government’, with ‘Pax’ (Peace) in her white robe relaxing with her olive branch, and beside her to the right ‘Fortitude’, with her armor and soldiers below.