Nardo Di Cione
1320 – 1365
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.
44 artworks in collection
