Robbia

American  

[roh-bee-uh, rawb-byah] / ˈroʊ bi ə, ˈrɔb byɑ /

noun

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

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Robbia British  

/ 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

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Example Sentences

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

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.

From Washington Post

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

The new dome of Florence’s cathedral, designed by Brunelleschi, ‘vast enough to cover the entire Tuscan population with its shadow’, towered over the city, and a group of brilliant artists—Brunelleschi himself, Donatello, Masaccio, Ghiberti, Luca della Robbia—were producing work which seemed unlike anything that had gone before.

From Literature

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.

From New York Times