Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works : a handbook (1875)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York : Hurd and Houghton · leaf 451
his fathers craft, was next instructed 432 ORCAGXA. in painting, by his brother Bernardo, and then entered the studio ofAndrea Pisano. He painted, with his brother, the Life of the Ma-donna in S. Maria Novella (now repainted); the great frescoes of Hell and Paradise, in the Strozzi chapel of the… … of Death and the Last Judgment, in the Campo Santo of Pisa.Signor Cavalcaselle doubts the truth of these being the work ofOrcagna; but if this author is right, enough remains to show thathe was the greatest painter who had succeeded Giotto. He unitedthe dramatic force of composition of the…
