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| Italiano: Siena - Palazzo Pubblico (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
The surprise of going by train to Sienna from Florence and traveling through the Tuscan landscape was finding that the Fresco below was not fantasy but a very good rendition of what was then the local landscape.
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The village originated as a fortified village of the Aldobrandeschi family. The Republic of Siena conquered it in the mid-13th century, but in the following century it was held by the Pannocchieschi and the Cappucciani of Sticciano families. In 1328 it was conquered by the condottiero Guidoriccio da Fogliano, fighting for Siena: the event is depicted in a famous fresco in the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena.
Cave Painters Were Realists, DNA Study Finds
It looks as if science has shown now that the horses in some of the earliest know cave paintings were not just made up either.
