City of Lights: Natural and Transcendent Light Sources for Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Good City-Republic

By Norman Klassen

The question of the light source for Ambrogio Lorenzetti's fresco on the east wall of the Sala dei Nove, known as The Good City-Republic, has long attracted comment. In this article I argue for two light sources rather than one on the basis of…

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