ORCAGNA, or ORGANA, ANDREA, a celebrated Italian artist, was the son of Cione, a well-known goldsmith, and was born at Florence in the former half of the fourteenth century. His artistic talents were displayed at once in painting, sculpture, architecture, and poetry. He was first engaged, along with his brother Bernardo, in decorating churches. His chief pictures were "The Triumph of Death," and "The Last Judgment," both of which exist at the present time in the Campo Santo at Pisa, and bear testimony to the spirited and fertile invention of the artist. Then turning his attention to sculpture and architecture, he erected and ornamented the finely-proportioned Loggia di Lanzi and the church of Or San Michele, two edifices which are still seen in his native city. Meanwhile his leisure hours had been occupied in making verses; and he now continued to dabble in poetry till his death, at the age of sixty. (Vasari's Painters, Sculptors, &c.; and Lanzi's History of Painting.)