Top 10 Siena’s Museo Civico
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1. Sala della Pace
Contains medieval Europe’s greatest secular fresco, full of everyday life details (see Palazzo Pubblico: Fresco Cycle).
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2. Sala del Mappamondo
Across from Simone Martini’s Guidoriccio da Foligno (see Palazzo Pubblico: Guidoriccio da Foligno) is his impressive Maestà (1315). Among the frescoes is a monochrome 15th-century battle scene.
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3. Anticappella and Cappella
Taddeo di Bartolo frescoed both rooms. The chapel, beyond an ornate screen, contains a fine altarpiece by Sodoma.
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4. Sala di Balia
Spinello Aretino and his son teamed up (1407–08) to illustrate the life of Pope Alexander III, featuring a fantastic naval battle.
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5. Sala del Risorgimento
The room boasts 19th-century sculptures and murals on the life of King Vittorio Emanuele II, who unified Italy.
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6. Loggia
The weathered remnants of Jacopo della Quercia’s Fonte Gaia sculptures (1409–19) rest under the timbers of this open loggia.
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7. Sala del Concistoro
Bored delegates at government meetings can gaze at ceiling frescoes by Beccafumi.
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8. Anticamera del Concistoro
An Ambrogio Lorenzetti fresco is among the treasures here.
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9. Vestibule
It is only a passageway, but it houses a 1429 gilded bronze she-wolf honouring Siena’s Roman origins, and a fresco by Ambrogio Lorenzetti.
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10. 16th- to 18th-Century Paintings
These are the first rooms you come to, but are probably the least interesting of them all!
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