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Lorenzetti’s Allegory of Good and Bad Government
- riffraff 6y agowikipedia has more images[0], as somehow the article doesn't show "The Effects of Bad Government on the Country" (barren fields, burning farms, brigands/soldiers raids etc). Also, a part of the "bad government in the city" is not captioned appropriately. I remember this from my history book in high school, it's an interesting painting, but like much of the medieval stuff it may be hard to understand with modern eyes. A vaguely similar "good vs bad" depiction is Beer Street and Gin Lane[1], intended to show how good life would be if we just stuck to lighter alcoholic beverages. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Allegory_of_Good_and_Bad_Government https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Allegory_of_Good_and_Bad_G... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Street_and_Gin_Lane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Street_and_Gin_Lane