Ruskin comments in Modern Painters III on Orcagna 's 'intense solemnity and energy', and the 'perfect unison' of 'expression' with 'pictorial power in the details' ( Works, 5.51 and Works, 5.52). He is included among those who provide 'delight' by allegorical painting and sculpture ( Works, 5.134). Ruskin asserts that:
Nothing but unmixed good can accrue to any mind from the contemplation of Orcagna's Last Judgment or his Triumph of Death, or Angelico's Last Judgment and Paradise, or any of the scenes laid in heaven by the other faithful religious masters; and the more they are considered, not as works of art, but as real visions of real things, more or less imperfectly set down, the more good will be got by dwelling upon them. The same is true of all representations of Christ as a living presence among us now, as in Hunt's Light of the World. ( Works, 5.86)