della Robbia
Americannoun
noun
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Filippo Brunelleschi, the architect, designed the Innocenti building, while Andrea della Robbia, the sculptor, was responsible for depicting idealized versions of the swaddled infants the institution took in.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
Finally, the exhibition ends with the figure of an adoring angel, reminiscent of Leonardo, made by Luca della Robbia the Younger, around 1510 or 1515.
From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2017
One of the most innovative art-as-advertising firms in late-15th- and early-16th-century Florence was the della Robbia workshop, a family concern that prospered for three long-lived generations.
From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2016
It’s a constant companion, often inspiring: crystalline light and skies of della Robbia blue, storybook sunsets.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 15, 2014
Judged by its relation to the art of Luca della Robbia, this is among the early works of Andrea.
From Tuscan Sculpture of the Fifteenth Century A Collection of Sixteen Pictures Reproducing Works by Donatello, the Della Robia, Mino da Fiesole, and Others, with Introduction by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)
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