In 1337, the government of Siena in central Italy asked the painter Ambrogio Lorenzetti to depict its political manifesto and idea of governance. Over the next two years, Lorenzetti would paint a cycle of frescoes on the walls of the hall where the city rulers met.
The Markets for People debate series tables a similar topic: How do policy decisions affect the lives of citizens in concrete terms? The detail we chose is from The Effects of Good Government in the Countryside (click here for a fuller picture).