Andrea di Cione di Arcangelo (c. 1308 – August 25, 1368), better known as Orcagna, was an Italian

Italy

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 painter, sculptor, and architect active in Florence

Florence

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. A student of Andrea Pisano

Andrea Pisano

Andrea Pisano , also known as Andrea da Pontedera, was an Italian sculptor and architect.-Biography:Andrea Pisano was born at Pontedera, where he also died....

 as well as Giotto di Bondone

Giotto di Bondone

Giotto di Bondone , better known simply as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages...

, his younger brothers Jacopo di Cione

Jacopo di Cione

Jacopo di Cione was an Italian painter.Born in Florence between 1320 and 1330, he is closely associated with his three older brothers Andrea di Cione di Arcangelo , Nardo di Cione and Matteo di Cione. The di Cione brothers often worked collaboratively...

 and Nardo di Cione

Nardo di Cione

Nardo di Cione , was an Italian painter, sculptor and architect from Florence. He was the brother of the more accomplished Andrea di Cione, called Orcagna, as well as Jacopo di Cione; they were important members of the Painter’s Guild of Florence...

 were also artists. The di Cione brothers often worked collaboratively.

Orcagna's works include the "Altarpiece of the Redeemer" (1354–57) in the Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella and the tabernacle in Orsanmichele

Orsanmichele

Orsanmichele is a church in the Italian city of Florence...

 (finished 1359) which was regarded as "the most perfect work of its kind in Italian Gothic".

His fresco The Triumph of Death inspired Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...

's masterwork Totentanz

Totentanz (Liszt)

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. Among Orcagna's pupils is Nello di Vanni, a Pisa

Pisa

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n painter of the 14th century, who also worked for the Campo Santo. Nello di Vanni is conjectured to be identical with Bernardo Nello or Giovanni Falcone.

The mosaic decoration and the rose window of the cathedral of Orvieto is attributed to Orcagna, who had become Master of the Works in 1359.