Mar 23, 2021
ON LORENZETTI'S ALLEGORY OF GOOD AND BAD GOVERNMENT:
"Probably the greatest artistic study...Lorenzetti clearly distinguishes between good and bad government, showing on one side the devil presiding over all those vices which destroy community, and on the other side the Christian virtues from which flow all those activities-including honest toil-which manifest oneness between men under God...However, as the painter knew well enough from Siena's own turbulent city politics, if the sources of good and evil were distinct, the effects were humanly mixed together in a more or less jumbled heap of good and bad intentions."
~Dr. Francis Schaeffer, How Should We Then Live?