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Italian painter, sculptor and architect (c. 1308–1368)
Statue of Andrea Orcagna on the Piazzale degli Uffizi in Florence carved by Niccolò BazzantiStrozzi Altarpiece (1354–1357), Santa Maria Novella, FlorenceTabernacle of Orsanmichele (1352–1359)
Andrea di Cione di Arcangelo (c. 1308 – 25 August 1368), better known as Orcagna, was an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect active in Florence. He worked as a consultant at the Florence Cathedral and supervised the construction of the façade at the Orvieto Cathedral.[1] His monumental marble tabernacle (1352–1359), commissioned by the confraternity of Orsanmichele to protect the Maestà by Bernardo Daddi (1347) at Orsanmichele, was immediately praised.[2] The tabernacle, executed according to his design with the assistance of a team of selected sculptors and masons, included 117 figural sculptures or reliefs as part of a domed structure.[3]
Fresco of Saint Anne calling the citizens of Florence to arms against the tyrant Walter VI, Count of Brienne, Duke of Athens, formerly in the Stinche Prison (c. 1343), a huge circular painting with a truthful depiction of the Palazzo Vecchio, where it is displayed today.
Altarpiece of the Redeemer (1354–1357) in the Strozzi di Mantova Chapel at Santa Maria Novella, Florence
The mosaic decoration and the design for the rose window of the cathedral of Orvieto is attributed to Orcagna, who had become Master of the Works in 1359.
His fresco of the Crucifixion with a multitude of angels surrounding the cross, portrayed on a dark background and a few fragments of the Last Supper (1365).[6]
Nello di Vanni, a Pisan painter of the 14th century, who also worked for the Campo Santo. Nello di Vanni is conjectured to be identical with Bernardo Nello or Giovanni Falcone.[7]
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^Kreytenberg, G. (2003). "Cione, Andrea di". Grove Art Online. Retrieved 27 September 2025.
^Millard Meiss (1978) [1951]. "I. The New Form and Content: Orcagna's Altarpiece". Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death. The Arts, Religion, and Society in the Mid-Fourteenth Century (4 ed.). Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press. pp. 9 ff. ISBN0-691-00312-2.
