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Orcagna, Nardo di Cione and the Strozzi di Mantova Chapel (Santa Maria Novella)
The facade of the Santa Maria Novella
View of the Strozzi di Mantova Chapel in the side aisle of Santa Maria Novella
At the head of the left transept, the Strozzi di Mantova Chapel contains work by Orcagna and his brother Nardo di Cione from the middle of the Trecento. The other Strozzi Chapel is located directly to the left of the main chapel and was painted between 1487 and 1502 by Filippino Lippi.
Crivelli ‘Thomas Aquinas’ 1476
The Strozzi di Mantova Chapel was built between 1340 and 1350. Orcagna painted the large altarpiece and his brother painted the frescoes on the walls. Andrea Orcagna was the most important young painter who emerged after 1340. He painted his most significant work for this chapel. It is an altarpiece depicting the Enthroned Redeemer and saints. The work is dated 1357 and signed. The paintings on the walls behind and next to this large altarpiece are: The Last Judgement and Resurrection behind the altarpiece; on the left wall the Paradise with a triumphant Christ and Mary and on the right Hell. Some family members can also be seen in these frescoes. Naturally, the whole ensemble fits perfectly with a burial chapel. After all, the Dominican theologian Thomas Aqui
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Nardo di Cione (ca.1320-1365/66) was the brother of Andrea di Cione called Orcagna and Jacopo di Cione with whom he often collaborated. They ran together one of the leading Florentine workshops in the mid-14th century. He executed a number of frescoes, a very few of which have survived in poor conditions and several polyptych panels.
This panel showing Christ in red and blue robes in the act of crowning the Virgin, in black and white garments, is believed to have constituted the central panel of a triptych. The coronation of the Virgin was a popular subject in Gothic and late Gothic Italy up to the 18th century although its imagery considerably evolved over the centuries.
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| Title | The Coronation of the Virgin (popular title) |
| Materials and techniques | tempera on poplar panel |
| Brief description | Tempera painting, 'The Coronation of the Virgin', Nardo di Cione, 1340s-1360s |
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