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Name: Luca della Robbia
Birth Date: c. 1399
Death Date: February, 1482
Place of Birth: Florence, Italy
Place of Death: Florence, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Gender: Male
Occupations: sculptor

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Biography of Luca della Robbia
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The Florentine sculptor Luca della Robbia (ca. 1399-1482) is usually remembered for his singularly lovely images of the Madonna and Child in glazed terra-cotta. Luca della Robbia was praised by his compatriot Leon Battista Alberti for genius comparable...


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Luca della Robbia (1400-1481) was an Italian sculptor from Florence, noted for his terracotta roundels. Della Robbia developed a pottery glaze that made his creations more durable in the outdoors and thus suitable for use on the exterior of buildings....


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Learning from della Robbia. (teaching ceramics)
10/01/1993: 650 words, approx. 2 pages
Most children love to work with clay, and I've taught my students how to make pinch or coil pots for years. We have also combined coil and slab methods to sculpt figures, animals, buildings, masks and relief tiles. While the results of all...
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The New York Observer
Carnevale's Late Renaissance: A Scholarly Exhibition at the Met
2/20/2005: 801 words, approx. 3 pages
Before I begin kvelling about From Filippo Lippi to Piero Della Francesca: Fra Carnevale and the Making of a Renaissance Master, an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, duty compels me to get the bad news out of the way. Contrary to the exhibition's...
 


 

Luca della Robbia

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