Andrea Orcagna
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Middle Ages
- Categories: Arts, Architecture
- Subcategories: Artists, Artisans, Painting, Painters, Drawing, Christianity, Christians, Churches, Empires, Dynasties, Holy Roman Empire, Sculpture, Sculptors, Catholic Church, Catholics, Architects
- Curriculum: Italian History, Medieval History/Middle Ages
Article abstract: In paintings and in sculptural and architectural projects combining religious intensity with naturalism, Orcagna extended the expressive range of Italian art in the mid-fourteenth century.
Early Life
Little is known of Orcagna’s early life; even the date of his birth is conjectural. In Le vite de’ più eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori italiani (1550; Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, 1842-1859), Giorgio Vasari states that Orcagna lived to the age of sixty. This fact, together...
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