NARDO DI CIONE (active 1343-66 in Florence) |
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. Ghiberti attributes to Nardo the series of frescos of The Last Judgement, Hell, and Paradise in the Strozzi Chapel, Sta Maria Novella, which houses Orcagna's great altarpiece.
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