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Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1290-1348)，A painter who only approaches the height of Giotto, Duccio and Simone Martini, he eccellently represents however the various aspects of the artistic re-awakening of the time. He had the fortune of being commissioned a vast pictorial cycle in the Palazzo Pubblico ( the town Hall ) in Siena, that can still be admired today, opening a window, for a backwards view in time, on the physical aspect of Siena and its countryside in the middle of the 14th century. Equally vivid and documentative is hih representation of sienese life, of activities, costumes and games of the sienese citizen. It is a representation certainly hagiographic ( and, for this matter, it shows the grade of new consciousness and civic pride acquired by these State-cities ), but absolutely new in character and spirit, a kind of "documentary" ante litteram.
Ambrogio's painting, mostly superficial, subordinates plastic and spacial values, so pre-eminent in Giotto, to those structural and environmental ones. He gives primary importance to the line that defines the forms and the fields of colour and that conducts the same expressive dynamic. This allegoric cycle is entitled "Effects of the good and bad government". It is certainly his most important work, in which he generates a successful fusion between both his intellectual and poetical world. It is, above all, the first work in Italian art in which the contents are not only religious but also philosophical, political and documentarial. Reality is questioned with the intention of being objective and Lorenzetti adopts a still rudimental perspective that is, however, able to define with vividness the same. He worked mostly in Siena and Florence, where his works may still be found. Born in 1285, he probably died in 1348.