Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Portrait in the Life of Artists, by Giorgio Vasari (1568)
Bornc. 1285/1290
Died(1348-06-09)9 June 1348 (aged 57–63)
Siena
NationalityRepublic of Siena
Known forPainting, fresco
Notable workAllegory of good government, Allegory of bad government
MovementGothic

Ambrogio Lorenzetti (Italian pronunciation: [amˈbrɔːdʒo lorenˈtsetti]; c. 1290 – 9 June 1348)[1] or Ambruogio Laurati was an Italian painter of the Sienese school. He was active from approximately 1317 to 1348. He painted The Allegory of Good and Bad Government in the Sala dei Nove (Salon of Nine or Council Room) in Siena's Palazzo Pubblico. His elder brother was the painter Pietro Lorenzetti.

  1. ^ Frank N Magill; Alison Aves (1 November 1998). Dictionary of World Biography. Routledge. pp. 595–. ISBN 978-1-57958-041-4.

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