# Effects of Bad Government on the City Life \(detail\)

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## Artwork

- Artist: [LORENZETTI, Ambrogio](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lorenzetti-ambrogio-r74a84fda71130b>)
- Date: 1301-1350
- Technique: Fresco

## Commentary

Inside the city surrounded by crenellated walls, houses are torn down and set ablaze, the streets are full of rubble, the palaces collapse, while all around hoards of soldiers commit acts of violence, killing and maiming. In this city, where loneliness reigns, no one is working; just one artisan, a blacksmith, is forging weapons.

## Related artworks

- [A Group of Four Poor Clares](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lorenzetti-ambrogio-r74a84fda71130b/a-group-of-four-poor-clares-r20ff0c199f223f>)
- [Allegory of Bad Government \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lorenzetti-ambrogio-r74a84fda71130b/allegory-of-bad-government-detail-r983549eb266f6c>)
- [Allegory of the Good Government \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lorenzetti-ambrogio-r74a84fda71130b/allegory-of-the-good-government-detail-r51506b4d59b7af>)
- [Allegory of the Good Government \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lorenzetti-ambrogio-r74a84fda71130b/allegory-of-the-good-government-detail-r71abf290d5ec13>)
- [Allegory of the Good Government \(left view, detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lorenzetti-ambrogio-r74a84fda71130b/allegory-of-the-good-government-left-view-detail-r326d3e36cb6d0c>)
- [Allegory of the Good Government \(left view, detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lorenzetti-ambrogio-r74a84fda71130b/allegory-of-the-good-government-left-view-detail-r960ff44a667636>)
- [Allegory of the Good Government](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lorenzetti-ambrogio-r74a84fda71130b/allegory-of-the-good-government-r122b2aa1e43513>)
- [Altarpiece of St Proculus](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lorenzetti-ambrogio-r74a84fda71130b/altarpiece-of-st-proculus-rd2b3f96e3c5ca5>)
- [Annunciation](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lorenzetti-ambrogio-r74a84fda71130b/annunciation-r520fa3a353305b>)
- [Bad Government and the Effects of Bad Government on the City Life](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lorenzetti-ambrogio-r74a84fda71130b/bad-government-and-the-effects-of-bad-government-on-the-city-life-r0c9bd8c45995ab>)
- [Effects of Bad Government on the Countryside \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lorenzetti-ambrogio-r74a84fda71130b/effects-of-bad-government-on-the-countryside-detail-rb81910080ba6e9>)
- [Effects of Good Government on the City Life \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lorenzetti-ambrogio-r74a84fda71130b/effects-of-good-government-on-the-city-life-detail-r3fa15d46b497b3>)

## Attribution

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