Orcagna

Details

Instance of

human

Born

1315, 1320, 1308

Died

1368

Place of birth

Florence

Place of death

Florence

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Andrea

Sibling

Jacopo di Cione, Nardo di Cione, Matteo di Cione

Field of work

visual arts

Occupation

painter, sculptor, architect, poet

Citizenship

Italy

artist files at

Frick Art Research Library, Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library

depicted by

Statue of Andrea Orcagna

described by source

Teutsche Academie der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Schilder-boeck, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, New Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition

end of work period

1368

has works in the collection

Minneapolis Institute of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rijksmuseum, Palazzo Vecchio, Museum Catharijneconvent, Aartsbisschoppelijk Museum, Uffizi Gallery, Yale University Art Gallery, Führermuseum, Refectory of the Basilica of Santa Croce, Museo dell'Opera di Santa Croce

name

Andrea di Cione, Andrea Orcagna, Orcagna, Andrea Orgagna

notable work

Triptych with the Virgin and Child, and Saints Mary Magdalene and Ansanus, Fragments of frescos from the Basilica of Santa Croce (Florence)

start of work period

1344

student

Master of the Ashmolean Predella

student of

Andrea Pisano, Giotto

topic's main category

Category:Andrea Orcagna

work location

Florence

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