Jesús CANTERA MONTENEGRO, Ángela ORGANERO MANZANERO

Original title: Decoración de interiores públicos laicos en la Edad Media

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Keywords: Ambrogio Lorenzetti, European painting, Fiscal system, Florence and Siena, Political propaganda.

The secular presence on art during XIV century, reflects how artistics genres started a process of indipenditation of eclesiastic world. In Europe, in this age a fiscal system was stablished that aloud a fluence transmission of money to coffers. This made Florence and Siena gain a strong economic stability. With the total control of middle class, took place the building of Public Palace of Siena and the decoration of the Sala dei Nove by Ambrogio Lorenzetti. This frescos constitutes a unicum european painting because his conception and convey feelings, like one of famous manifiestion of political propaganda of Middle Age. Ambrogio, under allegorical, political, theological and philosophical pressure, put together a whole political ideology result of agreement between citizens.