Saint John the Evangelist [right panel]

Nardo di Cione's Saint John the Evangelist served as the right wing of a polyptych altarpiece, likely commissioned for a Florentine church around 1360. Nardo, brother of the more famous Andrea di Cione (Orcagna), was a leading painter in post-plague Florence, working in a solemn, monumental style shaped by the Black Death's impact on Tuscan devotional art. The panel reflects the hierarchical arrangement typical of Trecento altarpieces, where flanking saints directed worshippers' attention toward the central Madonna or Crucifixion.

Executed in egg tempera on a prepared poplar panel with tooled gold ground and punch-work haloes characteristic of the Orcagna workshop. The figure displays the broad, solid modelling and restrained palette favoured by Florentine painters after mid-century.