# Effects of Bad Government on the Countryside \(detail\)

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## Artwork

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

## Commentary

In the hilly countryside the only activities are ones of death and destruction, setting fire to isolated houses and whole villages. The countryside is bare and barren, the trees bear no fruit and no one is cultivating the land.

## 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 City Life \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lorenzetti-ambrogio-r74a84fda71130b/effects-of-bad-government-on-the-city-life-detail-r308203cb3e0d11>)
- [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

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)