Orcagna
/ (Italian orˈkaɲa) /
Andrea (anˈdrɛːa), original name Andrea di Cione. ?1308–68, Florentine painter, sculptor, and architect
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The right hand is raised by Michael Angelo as in anger; by Orcagna, only to show the wounded palm.
Val d'Arno | John RuskinGiotto and Orcagna first attempted to give resemblance to nature in this respect.
Orcagna was not only a painter and a sculptor, but also a worker in mosaic, an architect and a poet.
In 1357 Orcagna painted the altar-piece in the same chapel, and of about the same date is the altar-piece now before us.
A certain quaint uncouthness should not blind us to Orcagna's wealth of expressive detail.
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