# Series of six angels \(2\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [JACOPO DI CIONE]() - Date: 1351-1400 - Technique: Tempera on wood, gold ground ## Commentary Series of six angels \(2\) c. 1365 Tempera on wood, gold ground Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The series of six angels in the Metropolitan Museum of Art are mounted with the frame of a panel depicting the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/o/orcagna/2/pinnacle.html'\)" href="/html/o/orcagna/2/pinnacle.html">Crucifixion \(attributed to Orcagna\)</a> and are fragments of an altarpiece; however their current arrangement does not reflect that of the original altarpiece but rather a reconfiguration by a 19th-century collector. The Crucifixion originally formed the altarpiece's central pinnacle while the Six Angels originally comprised pilasters. The altarpiece was probably painted for Santa Maria degli Angeli, the Camaldolese church of Florence, perhaps for the chapel founded in 1365 and dedicated to Ognissanti \(All Saints\), which was funded by Ser Francesco di Ser Berto degli Albizzi. The altarpiece and its components have been variously attributed to members of the renowned family of Florentine painters: the brothers Andrea \(known as Orcagna\), Nardo, and Jacopo di Cione. The commission may have been given to Nardo in 1365 and taken over by Jacopo, following Nardo's death in 1366. The Cione brothers, especially Nardo, were involved in multiple commissions for Santa Maria degli Angeli. The picture shows one of the six angels mounted on the left side of the frame of the Crucifix panel. ## Related artworks - [Annunciation]() - [Coronation of the Virgin]() - [Female Saints]() - [Madonna and Child]() - [Madonna and Child with Saints]() - [Madonna dell'Umiltà]() - [Mystic Marriage of St Catherine of Alexandria]() - [Noli me tangere \(detail\)]() - [Noli me tangere \(detail\)]() - [Noli me tangere]() - [Polyptych \(detail\)]() - [Polyptych \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()