Orcagna

/ orˈkaɲa /

noun

1. OrcagnaAndrea?13081368MFlorentineARTS AND CRAFTS: painterARTS AND CRAFTS: sculptorARCHITECTURE: architect Andrea (anˈdrɛːa), original name Andrea di Cione. ?1308–68, Florentine painter, sculptor, and architect

Example Sentences

At Orsanmichele, a church and former granary, Andrea Orcagna’s tabernacle enshrines an icon of the Madonna and Child.

From The Guardian

They include a jewel-like altarpiece panel by that most elusive of Renaissance figures, Andrea di Cione, known as Orcagna, and a gable-shaped “Crucifixion” by Guido da Siena, which, in terms of preservation, is as perfect as perfect can be.

From New York Times

In Orcagna and Michelangelo we have the three branches of art supremely united; and the second of these adds poetry and literature to his artistic excellence.

From Project Gutenberg

The Dominicans controlled the fine arts, and for them,—at Pisa, at Siena, in the Spanish Chapel,—Orcagna, Gaddi, Spinello Aretino, Simone Memmi abased the Empire, Averroes, and the new learning far more intolerantly than Dante had done; and exalted the Pope, with his handmaids Theology, Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric.

From Project Gutenberg

In the work of Orcagna, an intense solemnity and energy in the sublimest groups of his figures, fading away as he touches inferior subjects, indicates that his home was among the archangels, and his rank among the first of the sons of men: while Correggio, in the sidelong grace, artificial smiles, and purple languors of his saints, indicates the inferior instinct which would have guided his choice in quite other directions, had it not been for the fashion of the age, and the need of the day.

From Project Gutenberg