Nardo di cione biography for kids

Biography

Italian painter, one of the brothers of Orcagna (real name Andrea di Cione), the leading Florentine artist of the third quarter of the 14th century, a painter, sculptor, architect, and administrator.

His oeuvre has been reconstructed around several signed and dated works, he emerges as an artist with a style of his own, a pronounced lyrical vein, a feeling for poetic values, strong human sympathies, and great sensitivity to colour as a means of subtle differentiation and soft modelling.

In the absence of concrete evidence for many of the works, however, it is difficult to sketch Nardo's artistic development, but a probable sequence, based on such stylistic considerations as the changing proportions of his figures, can nevertheless be suggested.

The frescoes in the chapel of Sant'Anna in the Chiostro dei Morti of Santa Maria Novella, with scenes from the Life of St Anne and four figures of saints, are probably from the years 1345–50.

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