Resumen de The City's New Clothes: Ambrogio Lorenzetti and the Poetics of Space
This paper examines the motif of the dance as an affective moment in Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s frescoes for the Sala dei Nove, in Siena’s Palazzo Pubblico. The remarkable insect imagery of the dancers' dresses is shown to relate to a late medieval current of naturalism, and the masked dance is revealed in this context as a metaphor for generation. The paper argues that Ambrogio’s dancers, through their appeal to the viewer’s subjective experience, mask a youthful vitality, which may be taken as a measure of the desire for commonwealth, not just as a political abstraction but also as a living reality.
