This work is the first systematic and comparative examination of political paintings in Italian local government and judicial chambers in the 13th and 14th centuries. Drawing on the perspectives of art history, the author analyzes four examples of...
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This work is the first systematic and comparative examination of political paintings in Italian local government and judicial chambers in the 13th and 14th centuries. Drawing on the perspectives of art history, the author analyzes four examples of newly researched cycles of frescos in the context of broader historical, political, and legal developments, offering new insights into the function of images in the late Middle Ages.