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#8143   [[underlined]]ORCAGNA[[/underlined]], Andrea

"Orcagna and the Black Death of 1348", Part II, Art Quarterly, Vol. XII, Spring 1949, p. 127)....originally in Pisa and formed an altarpiece of which the center was possibly the Madonna statuette in the Campo Santo."

Collection:  Prince of Liechtenstein, Chapel of Fort Liechtenstein, Moedling.

Bibliography:  Fuhrer durch die Furstlich Liechtenstein'sche Gealdegalerie in Wien, by S. Kronfeld, Vienna, 1931, Gallery II, p. XVIII.

W.H. Valentiner, "Orcagna and the Black Death of 1348", Part II, Art Quarterly, Vol. XII, Spring 1949, p. 127.

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#8145/6  [[underlined]]BONINO DA CAMPIONE[[/underlined]]  (13357 - 1397

"[[underlined]]PRUDENTIA[[/underlined]]"

Marble. Height: 26-1/2"  Ca. 1357.

The concept of Prudence takes the form of a three-faced figure. The front face is that of a young girl looking down into a bowl which she holds with her left hand. In her right at the point of her waist, where the folds of her robe gracefully gather, she clasps a book. Of the other two heads, one is also that of a girl but with uplifted

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