Orcagna
Britishnoun
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Orcagna was therefore compelled to range his figures symmetrically in ordered lines, while Michael Angelo bound them into chains, or hurled them into heaps, or scattered them before him as the wind does leaves.
From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by John Ruskin
Even from the days of Orcagna there is an element of mixed motives and incoherence in the best of Italian architecture and sculpture.
From Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland
From the cathedral of Pisa, and the sculpture of the Pisans, the course is straight to Giotto, Angelico, and Raphael,—to Orcagna and Michael Angelo;—the Venetian school, in many respects mightier, being, nevertheless, subsequent and derivative.
From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by John Ruskin
This is an extreme instance; but you are not to suppose it is because Orcagna had naturally a coarse or prosaic mind.
From Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 by John Ruskin
They form grim and foreign accompaniments enough to the milk-and-water stories, and are about as suitable as the Orcagna frescoes in the Pisan Campo Santo would be to adorn the walls of a child’s nursery.
From William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work by Irene Langridge
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