Orcagna, Andrea (1308–1368)

Florentine painter, sculptor, and architect. He was to some extent a follower of Giotto, though his style marks a rejection of Giotto's monumental simplicity and a return to the rich and decorative qualities of Gothic painting. His chief work is the altarpiece Christ Enthroned (1357) in the Strozzi Chapel of Sta Maria Novella, Florence.

His other great work, as both architect and sculptor, is the church and tabernacle of Orsanmichele, Florence. His relief sculpture on the tabernacle, The Death and Assumption of the Virgin (1355–59), shows the clear influence of the sculptor Andrea Pisano.

Orcagna's brothers Jacopo di Cione (also known as Robiccia) and Nardo di Cione were also painters, and are said to have completed works left unfinished by Andrea.

Orcagna's return to a more conventional manner in religious subjects has been associated with a change in religious feeling, or a desire for the security of tradition, after the bubonic plague that beset Florence and Siena in 1348.