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Orcagna
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Also known as Andrea di Cione Orcagna, Andrea di Cione Orgagna, Andrea Di Cione Orgagna, Orgagna, Andrea Di Cione Arcagnuolo, Andrea Di Cione Orcagna, Arcagnuoulo, Andrea di Cione Arcagnuolo

thumb|upright=0.7|Statue of Andrea Orcagna on the Piazzale degli Uffizi in Florence carved by Niccolò Bazzanti|alt=Statue of Andrea Orcagna in the Uffizi outside gallery in Florence carved by Niccolò Bazzanti at Pietro Bazzanti e Figlio Art Gallery, Forence thumb|upright=0.9|Strozzi family|Strozzi Altarpiece (1354–1357), [[Santa Maria Novella, Florence]] thumb|upright=0.9|Tabernacle of Orsanmichele (1352–1359)

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Born
active 1343
Died
1368
Works
2

Top works

  • Les chefs-d'oeuvre de Andréa Orcagna
  • The masterpieces of Andrea Orcagna (1308? - 1368), Lorenzo Monaco (c. 1370-1425) and Masolino (1384 - after 1435)

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1 total works indexed

  1. Andrea Orcagna, His Brothers and Other Followers

    · 1924

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Andrea Orcagna
date of birth
1308-00-00
date of death
1368-00-00
Commons Creator page
Andrea Orcagna
start of work period
1344-01-01
end of work period
1368-01-01
name
Andrea Orgagna
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Works in European collections

22 objects attributed to Orcagna, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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thumb|upright=0.7|Statue of Andrea Orcagna on the Piazzale degli Uffizi in Florence carved by Niccolò Bazzanti|alt=Statue of Andrea Orcagna in the Uffizi outside gallery in Florence carved by Niccolò Bazzanti at Pietro Bazzanti e Figlio Art Gallery, Forence thumb|upright=0.9|Strozzi family|Strozzi Altarpiece (1354–1357), [[Santa Maria Novella, Florence]] thumb|upright=0.9|Tabernacle 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. 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. 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.

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