ORCAGNA

St. Zenobius seated with St. Crescenzius and St. Eugenius kneeling at either side Cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence

'Andrea di Cione di Arcangelo' (c. 13081368), better known as 'Orcagna', was a Florentine painter, sculptor and architect. A student of Andrea Pisano as well as Giotto di Bondone, his younger brothers Jacopo di Cione and Nardo di Cione were also artists.
His works include the altarpiece of ''The Redeemer with the Madonna and Saints'' (1354-57) in the Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella and the tabernacle in Orsanmichele (finished 1359) which was regarded as "the most perfect work of its kind in Italian Gothic".[1]
His fresco ''The Triumph of Death'' inspired Franz Liszt's masterwork Totentanz, by general consent the finest of his concerto works.

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