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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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
Anyone who has visited Florence knows the Della Robbia look, especially the rich cerulean blue and fine-porcelain whites of the early pieces by Luca and Andrea.
From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2017
If you want Della Robbia to express a classicizing purity — like blue-and-white Wedgewood china — then the push toward chromatic verisimilitude is unnerving.
From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2017
The della Robbia love of Classical symmetry is in effect, with twin angels floating around and a manicured garland of fruits and flowers framing the scene.
From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2016
The former, built by Michelozzo for Cosimo, contains some beautiful terracotta work of the school of the Della Robbia, a tabernacle by Mino da Fiesole, and a Coronation of the Blessed Virgin ascribed to Giotto.
From The Story of Florence by Gardner, Edmund G.
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