The contract (dated Aug. 18, 1518) for this large terracotta altarpiece survives. Giovanni della Robbia was given the commission to sculpt the Assumption of the Virgin, which was painted with oil paints (traces of which ...

These two fragments (made of painted wood) were originally a part of an altarpiece in San Frediano in Lucca and are currently housed in the Museo di Villa Guinigi in Lucca. The altarpiece was begun by Vecchietta and finished ...

This painted wood altarpiece of the entombment and assumption of the Virgin Mary is in the basilica of San Frediano in Lucca. (It was moved to its current location within the church and given a new frame in 1856.) The ...

This glazed terracotta lunette, now in the portico of the Accademia dei Belli Arti in Florence, was made for Santa Chiara in Florence, a small church which was renovated under the patronage of Jacopo Borgianni starting in ...