Robbia
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noun
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Andrea della (anˈdrɛːa ˈdɛlla). 1435–1525, Florentine sculptor, best known for his polychrome reliefs and his statues of infants in swaddling clothes
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his uncle, Luca della (ˈluːka ˈdɛlla). ?1400–82, Florentine sculptor, who perfected a technique of enamelling terra cotta for reliefs
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Then, around 1440, Luca della Robbia made it the stuff of high art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
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
FLORENCE, Italy — When Botticelli and Luca della Robbia created masterpieces about motherhood, they honored Renaissance idealism with reverential depictions of a serene Madonna and child.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2021
The process was discovered by Luca della Robbia, a talented sculptor in marble and bronze who turned his energies to glazed terra cotta sometime around 1440, with striking success.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2017
Pardon me, ladies," says she, while she turns her head and listens; "if I am not mistaken something has come to grief in my room, probably my little Lucca della Robbia.
From Boris Lensky by Ossip Schubin
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