The current grouping of these terracotta sculptures was assembled from what were originally separate works, probably when these works were moved to the Cathedral of Arezzo in the nineteenth century. (The male saints, who ...

Andrea della Robbia made these glazed terracotta statues of the Annunciate Virgin and the Angel Gabriel to flank the high altar in the Osservanza in Siena. Andrea also created an altarpiece and two roundels of saints for ...

Michele da Firenze specialized in terracotta -- though he is documented also as a stonecarver, only his works in terracotta survive. This under lifesize statue of the Madonna and Child (known as the Madonna delle Lacrime) ...

This splendid glazed terracotta niche is over the portal of the oratory of the Madonna delle Grazie in San Giovanni Valdarno. Filippo Buondelmonti and Jacopo Salviati, prominent patrons with ties to Pope Leo X, commissioned ...

This lunette, now in the Museo Bandini in Fiesole, was made for the San Michele in Palchetto, in Florence (Santa Elisabetta). The work is glazed terracotta, except for Mary's red dress, which is cold painted, because the ...

The original location of this almost life-size glazed terracotta Madonna is unknown. In the eighteenth century it was donated to the Oratorio di San Tommaso d'Aquino, Florence, where it remains today in relative obscurity, ...

This polychromed stucco relief of the Madonna and Child is found today in the Fondazione Salvatore Romano. On the base of the work are the words spoken by Gabriel to Mary at the Annunciation: "AVE MARIA GRATIA (PLENA)." ...

These two painted wood sculptures, which once formed an Annunciation, have suffered extensive damage. Gabriel has lost the left arm and some fingers on the right, as well as wings, but Mary has suffered more drastically, ...

This glazed terracotta sculpture of the Assumption of the Virgin, attributed to the workshop of Andrea della Robbia, was one of several placed in the Cathedral of Arezzo in the nineteenth century. Photograph(s) licensed ...

This pair of sculptures forms an Annunciation. As for other works from this time, the angel has lost his wings, which were presumably originally made of wood or possibly a more ephemeral material, maybe fabric or even ...