2002
DOI: 10.2307/3177315
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Siena and the Virgin: Art and Politics in a Late Medieval City State

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“…The principles represented in the Allegory of Good Government might be abstract, allegorical ideas, but they formed the basis of everyday practicalities, such as just methods of taxation (Boucheron, 2005(Boucheron, : 1169. The frescoes include scenes extending beyond the city itself to convey harmony with the surrounding contado (Norman, 1999), and depict the iconic antique religious symbol of the church of San Cristoforo, thus incorporating the religious within the civic ideal. These harmonious ideals of governance continue to be celebrated in the Biccherna panels and their visual impression management of civic administration, city and church, and city and contado.…”
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“…The principles represented in the Allegory of Good Government might be abstract, allegorical ideas, but they formed the basis of everyday practicalities, such as just methods of taxation (Boucheron, 2005(Boucheron, : 1169. The frescoes include scenes extending beyond the city itself to convey harmony with the surrounding contado (Norman, 1999), and depict the iconic antique religious symbol of the church of San Cristoforo, thus incorporating the religious within the civic ideal. These harmonious ideals of governance continue to be celebrated in the Biccherna panels and their visual impression management of civic administration, city and church, and city and contado.…”
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“…Heraldry provides the second set of signs. A host of 'insignia' or 'marks of corporate or individual identity dominated the visual landscape of late medieval and renaissance Europe' (Lincoln and Rihouet, 2013: 681-682), even in primarily religious paintings in Siena such as Simone Martini's Maestà (1315) (Figure 5), which includes carefully worked heraldry in its canopy (Norman, 1999). Heraldic shields were forerunners of portraits in medieval Europe, and the crests carry important semes.…”
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