Robbia

[roh-bee-uh, rawb-byah]

noun

1. Andrea della 1435–1525, and his uncle, Luca della c1400–82, Italian sculptors.

Robbia

/ ˈrobbja, ˈrəʊbɪə /

noun

1. Andrea della (anˈdrɛːa ˈdɛlla). 1435–1525, Florentine sculptor, best known for his polychrome reliefs and his statues of infants in swaddling clothes

2. his uncle, Luca della (ˈluːka ˈdɛlla). ?1400–82, Florentine sculptor, who perfected a technique of enamelling terra cotta for reliefs

Example Sentences

During Rosalynn Carter’s watch, chief floral designer Dottie Temple made della Robbia style pyramids stacked with fresh apples, lemons, limes and kumquats for the State Dining Room.

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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.

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Feel free to gawk at Morgan’s study, where paintings by Perugino and Hans Memling hang in front of red damask wallpaper, and don’t miss the unfailingly crisp Della Robbia ceramic reliefs in the marble-soaked rotunda.

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Now a museum, it houses terra-cotta medallions by Luca della Robbia and other magnificent artwork.

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He allowed Blanche DuBois, the heroine of the immortal “A Streetcar Named Desire,” to point out, in extremis in the play’s final scene, that her dressing gown was “della Robbia blue, the blue of the robe in the old Madonna pictures.”

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