Nardo di Cione (1320-died c. 1366)

• Was an Italian painter, sculptor and architect from Florence.
• He was the brother of Andrea di Cione, called Orcagna, as well as Jacopo di Cione.
• The Di Cione brothers collaborated on a number of works from their studio together, including the decorations from the Cappella Strozzi in Santa Maria Novella.
• While Orcagna painted the altarpiece, Nardo executed the frescoes of The Last Judgment, Paradise and Hell.
• Of Nardo's independently attributed works is his Crucifixion, a central panel of a tabernacle. 

• There is also Nardo's Standing Madonna with Child, executed sometime in the 1350s.

• This piece has been noted of works created in Florence after the ravages of the bubonic plague of 1348, where religious art was commissioned in order to bring spiritual relief to the survivors.

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