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Orcagna's tabernacle Wim de Rothschildts: een familie dieThe tabernacle of the Madonna in the Church of Orsanmichele in Florence is one of the great monuments of Gothic art. Commissioned in 1349 by the Laudesi, a society devoted to the cult of the Virgin, it was to be a magnificent statement of Florentine piety, a marble shrine encrusted with mosaics and sculpture worthy of the wealth and the artistic heritage of the city. The Laudesi chose Andrea Orcagna, the foremost artist in the city at the time, to