The Biccherna was the magistrate or chancellery of finance from the 13th to the 14th century for the republic and then city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy.
Finances of the City in Time of Peace and War (1468) by Benvenuto di Giovanni,
The records of the office are significant not only because Siena was one of the earliest and most important banking centers of medieval Europe, but also because the books that contain these records were bound with painted leather covers, often made by major artists.[1] These covers tend to display secular subject matter that glorifies the city's government and its citizens.
Many of these covers are displayed in the Archives of the State of Siena located in the Palazzo Piccolomini located on via Banchi di Sotto corner via Rinaldini.
The Biccherna was the magistrate or chancellery of finance from the 13th to the 14th century for the republic and then city of Siena, region of Tuscany...
Republic of Siena. Monks from the abbey routinely served as Camarlinghi di Biccherna, i.e. high magistrates of the main financial institution of the republic...
September 1986 to celebrate the centenary of the abolition of the Balia and Biccherna governments. In earlier times, the third Palio was a way to honor distinguished...
about 1298 to 1331. In 1306 he painted a panel for the office of the Biccherna in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena. In 1317 he painted an altar panel for...
least of the merchants. In 1263 the arms of the 'Four Provisors' of the Biccherna at Siena were painted on the cover of the tax-book for that year inaugurating...
Speme and Guido di Graziano, which are documented with the painting of Biccherna book covers for the Sienese commune in the 1270s. Some equate Guido as...
she looked like. The earliest proof of its existence is a record in the biccherna on the purchase of black and white fabrics to make 77 banners. The city...
sources that discuss the Great Company in greater length include the Biccherna budget in Siena and the Cronica Senesi. The former discusses some of the...
first mention of him is dated 1250 and was found in the records of the Biccherna or financial administration of Siena, a mention now lost but transcribed...
the Siena cathedral. He is known to have painted book-covers for the Biccherna, and was several times a member of the Grand Council of Siena. He frescoed...
the British Library received a restitution claim for Davis 768, the Biccherna Panel, a fifteenth century painted wooden panel attributed to the workshop...
Guild in 1355. In 1352 he executed a Coronation of the Virgin for the Biccherna, the Sienese Ministry of Finance. In 1359, together with Nello Betti,...
Bulgarini is in 1338 for a payment made for painting the cover of the Biccherna, the book containing the financial transactions for the Commune starting...
Studien (1938) The Royal Art of Astrology (London 1946) Una Tavoletta di Biccherna Nuovamente Scoperta (1950) Man Into Wolf: An Anthropological Interpretation...
was the fresco of the Coronation of the Virgin in the Cancelleria di Biccherna, for the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena. He began to paint four angel heads...
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