He published many of my books of photographs of sculpture, including those on Michelangelo, Bernini,
Orcagna, Henry Moore, and Marino Marini.
#A three-night break in Florence at the two-star
Orcagna Hotel costs from pounds 128, flying from Prestwick on June 3.
260) and many verbal echoes of her poem, such as the civil guard shooting at the sky, the mention of the stone of Dante and
Orcagna (11.
(2) The alla burchia technique, often associated with anti-academic parody, was far more systematically used by Mariotto di Nardo di Cione
Orcagna (d.
But the Musee Guimet gets a long, excited paragraph in which Moore singles out an Indian figure as "one of the finest pieces of sculpture I've ever seen?' Once in Italy, "the work of Giotto,
Orcagna, Lorenzetti, Taddeo Gaddi, the paintings leading up to and including Masaccio's are what have so far interested me most." On the other hand, "[o]f great sculpture I've seen very little--Giotto's painting is the finest sculpture I met in Italy--what I know of Indian, Egyptian and Mexican sculpture completely overshadows Renaissance sculpture." About the only exceptions are late Michelangelo and Donatello.
In the Madonna (Stalybridge) from the School of
Orcagna's brother, Jacopo di Cione, a plump infant Jesus, adorned with a teething coral and a crucifix either anachronistic or ominous, responds to the wild blonde adoration of the attendant angels by stroking His mother's cheek.
In
Orcagna, which Boiardo locates within the boundaries of ancient Persia, Marchino's wife seems to share this sentiment.
Making art is perhaps the closest we can come to acknowledging our frustrations in a ceremonial fashion, and though the distance is astronomical between the Strozzi Altarpiece by
Orcagna, the greatest artist of the age, and AIDS Timeline by the collaborative Group Material, the impulses of the two works are almost parallel.
3), the most spacious room in the gallery, pairs grand polyptychs--both in superb condition--on opposite walls: one centred on St Paul (circle of Andrea
Orcagna), the other a Lorenzo di Niccolo altarpiece of the Madonna and Child Enthroned, one of several works to have been cleaned and restored for the reopening.
The famous Or San Michele Tabernacle in Florence, commissioned to Andrea
Orcagna in 1352, correctly has been compared to the Roman shrines insofar as it houses a sacred object: not the effects or remains of a saint, but Bernardo Daddi's miracle-working image of the Madonna and Child that is visible through the broad arched opening on each of three sides of the shrine.
[50] Giotto's Campanile project foresaw a huge central octagon surrounded by high pinnacles at the corners, an arrangement paralleled in the superstructure of
Orcagna's Orsanmichele tabernacle, whose central ribbed cupola has in fact been seen to reflect or foreshadow the Duomo project (fig.