Note: page numbers in italics refer to illustrations
A
- Achilles’ shield
- Aequitas (Equity)
- Aeschylus
- Agamben, Giorgio
- Agnolo di Tura del Grasso
- Agnolo di Ventura
- Agostino di Giovanni
- agricultural portrayals
- Albertano da Brescia
- Alberti, Gianozzo: Della Famiglia
- Alberti, Leon Battista
- Aldobrandeschi counts
- Alexander III, Pope
- Alexander VIII, Pope
- allegory
- feminine
- good/bad government
- hierarchy
- masculine
- plane symbol
- political
- and realism
- tituli
- tyranny
- Ambrose, St
- Angelus Novus (Klee)
- Annunciation (A. Lorenzetti)
- Annunciation (Simone Martini)
- Anteconsistorio
- Anticappella: see Anteconsistorio
- Antoine, Jean-Philippe
- Antoninus of Florence: Summa Theologica
- Aquinas: see Thomas Aquinas, St
- Arasse, Daniel
- Arezzo
- Arezzo Cathedral
- Aristotle
- common good
- energeia
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Physics
- political philosophy
- Politics
- statue of
- on tyranny
- wisdom
- d’Arras, Jacquet
- ars dictaminis
- artists, status of
- Ascheri, Mario
- Aschius
- astrological symbolism
- Augustine, St: The City of God
- Avaritia (Avarice)
- Azzone Visconti
B
- Bachelard, Gaston
- bankruptcies
- Barbarossa, Frederick
- Baron, Hans
- Bartholomew of Lucca
- Bartolo da Sassoferrato: Tractatus de Regimine civitatis
- Baudelaire, Charles
- Beccafumi, Domenico
- Belle contrade (Camporesi)
- Belting, Hans
- Bendetto di Bindo
- Benedict XII, Pope
- Benjamin, Walter
- Benoît de Sainte-Maure: Roman de Troie
- Bernardino of Siena
- campo
- on civic concord
- on Fresco of Good Government
- on giullari
- on painters
- paintings of
- on Peace and War
- sermon
- symbol of
- Betrayal: see Proditio
- Biccherna
- Bindo di Cione del Frate
- Black Death
- Boccaccio, Giovanni
- Bologna
- Bonne, Jean-Claude
- book-burning
- Borges, Jorge Luis
- Boureau, Alain
- Bowsky, William
- Bridgeman, Jane
- Brugnolo, Furio
- Bruni, Leonardo
- Bulgarini, Bartolomo
- Bulgarini wedding chest
- Buonamico Buffalmacco: Trionfo della Morte
- Burckhardt, Jacob: The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
C
- campo
- Bernadino
- curia consulum
- nine divisions
- as orchestra
- Camporesi, Piero: Belle contrade
- Cangrande della Scala
- Cantore, Pietro
- Caritas (Charity)
- Carli, Enzo
- castle paintings
- castles
- Castracani, Castruccio
- Cateau-Cambrésis, Treaty of
- Catherine of Siena
- Cavalcaselle, Giovanni Battista
- Cecco di Meo degli Ugurgieri
- centaur
- Chapel (Palazzo Pubblico)
- Charity: see Caritas
- Charles of Anjou
- Charles of Calabria, Duke
- Charles IV of Luxembourg
- chessboard metaphor
- Chigi, Fabio
- Church
- Cicero
- Cimabue
- cinematic approach
- Cino da Pistoia
- city
- concord
- effect on population
- effects of good government
- materiality/authority
- war
- see also commune
- The City of God (Augustine)
- city walls
- civil war
- The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Burckhardt)
- Clement VI, Pope
- clocks
- Colle di Val d’Elsa, Battle of
- Commentaries (Ghiberti)
- common good
- Aristotle
- defence of
- ideal of
- Justice bound
- and pride
- public/private interests
- realization of
- Rubinstein
- Securitas
- signoria
- Skinner
- submission
- Thomas Aquinas
- see also commune
- common place
- communal government
- commune
- as dominus
- exercitus
- Giotto
- Justice
- militia
- and signoria
- see also the Nine
- Compagni, Dino: Cronica
- comune: see commune
- Comutativa
- Concordia (Concord)
- conflict resolution
- Consiglio dei Paciari
- Consistory (Palazzo Pubblico)
- Constance, Peace of
- contado
- described
- effects of good government
- feudalism
- ideal
- militia
- the Nine
- corda
- councillors
- Cronaca senese (Anon)
- Cronica (Compagni)
- Crudelitas (Cruelty)
- curia consulum
D
- Da Carrara family
- Damisch, Hubert
- dancing scene
- city at peace
- clothing
- men/women
- peace/victory
- public space for
- Daney, Serge
- Dante Alighieri
- Cecco di Meo degli Ugurgueri on
- Divine Comedy
- Fresco of Good Government
- as inspiration
- on painters
- sonnets
- on tragedy
- de Brosses, Charles
- De lingua Latina (Varro)
- De Pictura (Alberti)
- Decameron (Boccaccio)
- Defensor pacis (Marsilius)
- Della Famiglia (Alberti)
- Della Scala family
- Della Vita Civile (Palmieri)
- demagogues
- Deo auctore (Justinian)
- Descola, Philippe
- Dessì, Rosa Maria
- Didi-Huberman, Georges
- Distributiva
- Divine Comedy (Dante)
- Divisio (Division)
- Documenti per la storia dell’arte senese (C. and G. Milanesi)
- Donato, Maria Monica
- Donato di Neri
- a dritta corda
- Duccio
- Duomo
E
- ear-rings
- Ecerinis (Mussato)
- elites
- eloquence
- emperors
- energeia
- Equity: see Aequitas
- Erinyes (Furies)
- escutcheons
- Este family
- euphemizing
- exercitus
- expansionist policies
F
- factional struggles
- Faith: see Fides
- Familiar Letters (Petrarch)
- Fava, Guido
- Fazio della Gherardesca
- Feldges, Uta
- feudalism
- Fiamma, Galvano
- Fides (Faith)
- Flandrin, Hippolyte
- Florence
- area covered
- avant-garde
- civic humanism
- Guelph party
- Podestà
- and Siena
- signoria
- sumptuary laws
- Villani on
- footwear maker’s shop
- fortified towns
- Fortitudo (fortitude)
- Foucault, Michel
- The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (Skinner)
- Fourcade, Dominique
- Francis of Assisi, Saint
- Fraus (fraud)
- Frederick II
- fresco as term
- Fresco of Good Government (A. Lorenzetti)
- Bernardino of Siena on
- Dante on
- depiction of individuals
- iconography
- method of composition
- painted writings
- political message
- portrayals of women
- repaintings
- reproductions
- scope of
- silhouettes, inscriptions, identifications
- siting of
- theological virtues
- world history approach
- see also inscriptions
- Frugoni, Chiara
- Fulchiron, Jean-Claude
- Furor (Fury)
G
- Gaddi, Taddeo
- Gaia fountain
- Gautier de Brienne, Duke of Athens
- gaze
- attracted
- averted
- contemporary
- of councillors
- directed
- of judge
- of masculine allegory
- past shadows of
- of Peace
- politicized
- tracking shot
- unblocked
- Genoa
- Ghibellines
- Ghiberti, Lorenzo
- Gilles of Rome
- Ginzburg, Carlo ix
- Giotto
- Antoine on
- Arezzo
- astrological scenes
- narrativizing of images
- Padua
- Palazzo della Ragione
- Podestà
- Scrovegni Chapel
- sites of works
- Vanagloria
- Giovanni da Balduccio
- Giovanni da Viterbo
- Liber de regimine civitatum
- Girolami, Remigio de’
- Giuliano Milano
- giullari (itinerant dancers)
- Giuncarico castle
- Godard, Jean-Luc: Le Petit Soldat
- golden shield
- Google Art Project
- Greeks
- Greenstein, Jack
- grisaille
- Grosseto
- guasto (devastation)
- Guelph party
- Guernica (Picasso)
- Guidoriccio da Fogliano
H
- hell portrayed
- Henry of Rimini
- Henry VII, Emperor
- hermeneutics
- Hobbes, Thomas: Leviathan
- Homer: Iliad
- homosexual seduction
- Hope: see Spes
- hourglasses
- Hugh of St Victor
- humanism
- hunting with birds
I
- icon
- iconography
- Church
- Fresco of Good Government
- imperial
- Lorenzetti
- political
- religious
- Simone Martini
- Skinner
- Temperantia
- Iconologia (Ripa)
- Iliad (Homer)
- Ilias Latina (Publius)
- illusionism
- Iniustitia (Injustice)
- inscriptions
- Chigi on
- Latin
- Pecci on
- political legibility
- role of
- senza paura x
- vernacular
- verses
- insignorimento
- Iustitia (Justice)
- in chains
- feminine allegory
- golden writing
- magna/in abstracto
- repeated figure
- Scrovegni Chapel
- and wisdom
- see also justice
J
- Jacopo di Vanni
- Jewish women
- Judge
- Justice: see Iustitia
- justice
- Justinian: Deo auctore
K
- Kantorowicz, Ernst
- Kempers, Bram
- Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane
- Klee, Paul: Angelus Novus
- Krautheimer, Richard
- Kristeller, Paul Oscar
L
- Laetitia
- landscape paintings
- Lanzi, Luigi: Storia pittorica della Italia inferior
- Latini, Brunetto
- Latino, Cardinal
- leashed prisoners
- Léger, Fernand
- Leviathan (Hobbes)
- Liber de regimine civitatum (Giovanni da Viterbo)
- liberal arts
- Lives (Vasari)
- Li Livres dou trésor (Latini)
- Loraux, Nicole
- lords
- Lorenzetti, Ambrogio
- allegories
- Annunciation
- architectural detail
- commissioned
- death of
- Ghiberti on
- iconography
- inspiration for
- landscape tablets
- Madonna and Child of Vico l’Abate
- Mappemondo
- payment
- perspective
- as political painter
- on tyranny
- Vasari on
- words and painting
- see also Fresco of Good Government
- Lorenzetti, Pietro
- Nativity of the Virgin
- Storie di San Savino
- Lucca
- Lucifer
- Luzi, Mario
M
- Machiavelli, Niccolò
- Madonna and Child of Vico l’Abate (A. Lorenzetti)
- Maestà (Duccio)
- Maestà (Simone Martini)
- Maggi, Berardo
- Magnanimitas (Magnanimity)
- Malavolti, Donosdeo de’
- Mallarmé, Stéphane
- Manzoni, Alessandro
- mappemonde (A. Lorenzetti)
- Marchionne di Coppo Stefani
- Maremma
- Marianne (symbol of French Republic)
- Marin, Louis
- market square
- Mars
- Marsilius of Padua
- Massa Marittima
- matrimony, sermon on
- medallions
- Medici family
- melancholy
- Memmi, Lippo
- Mercury
- metamorphosis
- Michon, Pierre: Les Onze
- Milan
- Milanesi, Carlo and Gaetano: Documenti per la storia dell’arte senese
- militia
- Milner, Jean-Claude
- mimesis
- Mineo, Igor
- Mino, painter
- Mino di Feo
- Mnemosyne (Warburg)
- monetarization of agrarian economy
- Montaperti, Battle of
- Montemassi castle
- Moses
- Mussato, Albertino: Ecerinis
- Mussini, Luigi
N
- Nativity of the Virgin (P. Lorenzetti)
- Natural Histories (Pliny the Elder)
- naturalism
- Niccolò di Ser Sozzo
- Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- the Nine
- and Cathedral of Siena
- city walls
- commissioning artists
- contado
- government of
- meeting place
- as merchants
- monuments
- political decisions
- power relations
- propaganda
- public debt
- in Sala della Pace
- social world of
- sumptuary laws
- territorial policy
- nine, symbolism of
O
- Oculus pastoralis (Anon)
- odium
- old man figure
- On Duties (Cicero)
- On Invention (Cicero)
- Les Onze (Michon)
- Orfino da Lodi
- Ospedale Santa Maria della Scala
P
- pacification
- Padua
- Giotto
- Palazzo della Ragione
- Petrarch
- Scrovegni Chapl
- tripudium
- urban embellishment
- painted writings
- escutcheons
- exhorting people
- Lorenzetti
- retranscription
- as visibile parlare
- Palazzo dei Priori
- Palazzo della Ragione, Padua
- Palazzo Pubblico
- Palazzo Tolomei
- Palio horse racing
- Palmieri, Matteo: Della Vita Civile
- Pax (Peace)
- golden writing
- good government
- justice
- light source
- melancholy
- and progress
- titulus
- treaties
- and triumph
- and war
- Pecci, Giovanni Antonio
- perspective
- Perugia
- Peter the Lombard
- Le Petit Soldat (Godard)
- Petrarch, Francesco
- Petrucci, Pandolfo
- Physics (Aristotle)
- Picasso, Pablo: Guernica
- Piccinni, Gabriella
- Piccolomini
- Pichi, Toso
- Pilato, Leonzo
- Pinacoteca gallery
- Pisa
- Pius II Piccolomini, Pope
- plane symbol
- Plato
- Pliny the Elder: Natural Histories
- Podestà
- Bernardino
- courtyard
- credit crisis
- ermine-trimmed cap
- Florence
- Giotto
- itinerant judges
- Padua
- rhetoric
- Sala del Risorgimento
- Skinner
- poetry
- poetry in painting
- political philosophy
- Politics (Aristotle)
- Pontalis, J.-B.
- popolo
- compromise regime
- conflict resolution
- demands of
- influence
- lion rampant emblem
- and militia
- and nobles
- rule of
- Porta Romana
- Porta Tufi
- Pride: see Superbia
- Proditio (Betrayal)
- propaganda
- Prudentia (Prudence)
- public debt
- public order
- public roads
- public spaces
- Publius Baebius Italicus: Ilias Latina
- Pucci, Antonio
R
- ragione
- Rainieri, Bishop
- Ranieri di Ghezzo Gangalandi
- Rashid al-Din
- reading
- realism
- regime types
- regimen
- religious images
- res publica
- rhetoric
- ridda dance
- Riformatori
- riot in Siena
- Ripa, Cesare: Iconologia
- Roman de Troie (Benoît de Sainte-Maure)
- Rubinstein, Nicolai
- Russo, Daniel
S
- Sacone, Pier
- Sala dei Nove
- Sala del Consistorio
- Sala del Gran Consilio
- Sala del Mappamondo
- castle paintings
- Great Council
- inscription
- Lorenzetti paintings
- and Sala della Pace
- Simone Martini painting
- Sinalunga battle
- Sala del Risorgimento
- Sala della Pace
- access to
- castle paintings
- the Nine in
- and Sala del Consistorio
- and Sala del Mappamondo
- siting of
- three sides of
- see also Fresco of Good Government
- Salimbeni family
- Salutati, Coluccio
- Salvani, Provenzano
- San Cristoforo Church
- Sano di Pietro
- Sapientia (Wisdom)
- Sassetta
- Sbriccoli, Mario
- scales of Justice
- Schiera, Pierangelo
- Scrovegni Chapel, Padua
- Securitas (Security)
- Seidel, Max
- Seneca: Tranquillity of the Mind
- Senius
- she-wolf
- Siena
- art and administration
- bankruptcies
- Black Death
- civic identity
- civitas Virginis
- in decline
- family rivalry
- and Florence
- Guelph party
- as new Rome
- Pinacoteca
- riot
- territory
- urban splendour
- see also commune
- Siena Cathedral
- sightlines
- signifier/signified
- signoria
- and common good
- commune
- Ghibellinism
- as horned monster
- lordship
- propaganda
- seduction
- territorial
- tyranny
- silk trade
- Simone Martini
- to Avignon
- Bernardino on
- castle paintings
- commissions
- Madonnas
- Maestà
- painters in family
- Sinalunga, Battle of
- Sirach
- Skinner, Quentin ix
- on art/philosophy
- ‘The Artist as Political Philosopher’
- common good
- The Foundations of Modern Political Thought
- iconography
- magnus vir sapiens
- neo-Ciceronianism
- Podestà
- political readings
- on tripudium
- sodomy
- Spes (Hope)
- stasis
- Storia pittorica della Italia inferior (Lanzi)
- Storie della Vergine (Simone Martini and Lorenzetti brothers)
- Storie romane
- submission
- Summa Theologiae (Thomas Aquinas)
- Summa Theologica (Antoninus of Florence)
- sumptuary laws
- Superbia (Pride)
T
- Tabacco, Giovanni
- Taddeo di Bartolo
- Talamone
- tapestry of Fresco of Good Government
- Tarlati, Guido
- Tarr, Roger
- Tavoli delle possessioni
- tax system
- Temperantia (temperance)
- territorialization
- thermal baths
- Thomas Aquinas, St
- Thucydides
- Timaeus (Plato)
- time and temperance
- Timor
- tituli
- Tolomei conspiracy
- topographic portraits
- Torre del Mangia
- tracking shots
- Tractatus de Regimine civitatis (Bartolo da Sassoferrato)
- tragedy
- Tranquillity of the Mind (Seneca)
- Trionfo della Morte (Buonamico Buffalmacco)
- tripudium
- tristitia
- triumph
- trivium/quadrivium
- Tuscany
- the Twelve
- Tyramnides (tyranny)
- tyranny
- communal Italy
- counter-values
- dissymmetry
- effects of
- escutcheons
- ethics
- signoria
- vices
U
- university masters
- Urbino
- utrinque term
V
- Vanagloria (Vainglory)
- vanishing point
- Vanni, Andrea
- Vanni, Jacopo di
- Vanni, Lippo
- Varro: De lingua Latina
- Vasari, Giorgio
- artist-gentleman
- avant-garde
- on Giotto
- Lives
- on Lorenzetti
- Venice
- Venus
- Vernant, Jean-Pierre
- Verona
- vices
- Victor Emmanuel II
- Vigueur, Jean-Claude Maire
- Villani, Giovanni
- virtues
- Visconti family
- visibile parlare
- as discourse visible
- Latin/vernacular
- placings on fresco
- poetry
- readability
- studies on
W
- war
- city states
- euphemized
- and peace
- Warburg, Aby
- wedding chest
- wedding procession
- White, John
- William of Moerbeke
- Wirth, Jean
- Wisdom: see Sapientia
- Wisdom of Solomon
- wool trade
- world history approach
- worm symbolism