Orcagna

Tabernacle of Orsanmichele

Painter, sculptor, architect, and the dominant Florentine artist of the generation after the Black Death. His tabernacle at Orsanmichele — an explosion of Gothic marble carving — is the most ambitious sculptural ensemble in fourteenth-century Florence.

Key works

• Tabernacle, Orsanmichele1359— Gothic marble masterwork
  Orsanmichele, Florence
• Triumph of Death (attributed)~1348— Post-plague vision of mortality
  Camposanto, Pisa (attribution disputed)

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