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Tuscany : 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).
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.
3. Anticappella and Cappella

Taddeo di Bartolo frescoed both rooms. The chapel, beyond an ornate screen, contains a fine altarpiece by Sodoma.
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.
5. Sala del Risorgimento

The room boasts 19th-century sculptures and murals on the life of King Vittorio Emanuele II, who unified Italy.
6. Loggia

The weathered remnants of Jacopo della Quercia’s Fonte Gaia sculptures (1409–19) rest under the timbers of this open loggia.
7. Sala del Concistoro

Bored delegates at government meetings can gaze at ceiling frescoes by Beccafumi.
8. Anticamera del Concistoro

An Ambrogio Lorenzetti fresco is among the treasures here.
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.
10. 16th- to 18th-Century Paintings

These are the first rooms you come to, but are probably the least interesting of them all!