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Della Robbia ,
Florentine family of sculptors and ceramists famous for their enameled terra
cotta or faience.
Many of the free della robbia font pieces are still in their original settings in
Florence, Siena, and other Italian cities, but the finest collections are in Florence
in the cathedral, the Bargello, and the Italian Academy, and in London in the
Victoria and Albert Museum.
Luca della Robbia, 1400 1482, founder of the atelier, was known first as a
sculptor in bronze and marble. He was commissioned 1421 to design the choir
gallery of the cathedral at Florence. Later he perfected a process for making
clay reliefs and figures permanent by coating them with a glaze compounded
of tin, antimony, and other substances.
In his panels and medallions, the Madonna and saints and angels usually
appear in white on a blue background, sometimes with touches of gold and
color in the decorative setting. A Madonna and Child is in the Metropolitan
Museum.
Andrea della Robbia, 1435 1525?, nephew and chief pupil of Luca, made a
marble altar for a church near Arezzo and extended the use of clay to whole
altarpieces one is in the Church of Santa Croce, Florence, friezes, and fountains.
His medallions on the Foundling Hospital, Florence, show simple baby forms
on blue ground, but in many of his medallions the central figures are framed in
garlands of richly colored fruits and flowers.
The Virgin in Adoration, an
unglazed terra cotta relief, is in the National Gallery
of Art, Washington, D.C.
Andrea della Robbia's sons, Luca II, c.1480 1550,
Giovanni, c.1469 c.1529, and Girolamo, c.1488 1566, carried on the
family
tradition into the 16th cent.
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Date 2007
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