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and classical art forms, and used these to create a unique and individualistic style of painting. His work was exceptionally original. Individuality at this time was unusual due to the influence of patronage on art. Because paintings were often commissioned, individualism in art was infrequently
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receiving the news from the Angel about the coming of baby Jesus, contains one of the first uses of clear linear perspective. Though it is not perfect, and the
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Polzer, Joseph (2002). "Ambrogio
Lorenzetti's 'War and Peace' Murals Revisited: Contributions to the Meaning of the 'Good Government Allegory'".
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Rubinstein, Nicolai (1958). "Political Ideas in Siense Art: The
Frescoes by Ambrogio Lorenzetti and Taddeo di Bartolo in the Palazzo Pubblico".
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Lorenzetti's intellectual abilities, saying that his manners were "more those of a gentleman and philosopher than those of an artist".
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belies a subtle level of emotion as she confronts the viewer. This difference could be attributed to the patron's stylistic wishes for
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Greenstein, Jack M. (1988). "The Vision of Peace: Meaning and
Representation in Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Sala Della Pace Cityscapes".
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Norman, Diana (1997). "Pisa, Siena, and the
Maremma: a neglected aspect of Ambrogio Lorenzetti's paintings in the Sala dei Nove".
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Prazniak, Roxann (2010). "Siena on the Silk Roads: Ambrogio Lorenzetti and the Mongol Global Century, 1250–1350".
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