ALG365041 Chief Financial Officer and Scribe at their desk in the Biccherna (revenue office) (tempera on panel) by Paolo di Giovanni Fei (fl.1372-1411); Archivio di Stato, Siena, Italy; (add.info.: Camerlengo (chief financial officer) and clerk; often monks from the Cistercian Abbey of San Galgano; heraldic arms of the Provveditori (leading Sienese citizens and overseers of finance in the city); painted wooden panel traditionally used to bind the ledgers of the accounts;); Italian, out of copyright.