Orcagna

Statue of Andrea Orcagna in the Uffizi outside gallery in Florence carved by Niccolò Bazzanti at Pietro Bazzanti e Figlio Art Gallery, Forence
Statue of Andrea Orcagna on the Piazzale degli Uffizi in Florence carved by Niccolò Bazzanti at Pietro Bazzanti e Figlio Art Gallery, Florence
Strozzi Altarpiece (1354-57), Santa Maria Novella, Florence

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] The highly paid tabernacle for the Maestà by Bernardo Daddi at Orsanmichele (1349–59) was immediately praised.[2] His Strozzi Altarpiece (1354–57) is noted as defining a new role for Christ as a source of Catholic doctrine and papal authority.[3][4]

Works

Orcagna's works include:

  • Fresco of Saint Anne calling the citizens of Florence to arms against the tyrant Walter 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 today
  • Altarpiece of the Redeemer (1354–57) in the Strozzi di Mantova Chapel at Santa Maria Novella, Florence
  • The tabernacle in Orsanmichele (1352–59)
  • 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).[5]

Pupils

Among Orcagna's pupils and legacy were:

References

  1. ^ "Uffizi Gallery". Museumsinflorence.com.
  2. ^ Wolfgang Braunfels (1966) [1953]. Mittelalterliche Stadtbaukunst in der Toskana (in German) (3 ed.). Berlin: Gebrüder Mann. pp. 212 f.
  3. ^ 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. ISBN 0-691-00312-2.
  4. ^ Eimerl, Sarel (1967). The World of Giotto: c. 1267–1337. et al. Time-Life Books. p. 187. ISBN 0-900658-15-0.
  5. ^ "Cenacolo by Andrea". www.visitflorence.com.
  6. ^ Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 586.
  7. ^ Gaetano Milanesi, ed. (1906) [1878]. Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori ed architettori scritte da Giorgio Vasari. Volume 1. Florence: G. C. Sansoni. p. 609.
  8. ^ Vasari/Milanesi 1906, p. 610.
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