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Madonna and Child with Angels
Andrea della Robbia was paid twenty gold florins (about the cost of 7000 eggs at the time) to make this glazed terracotta lunette that was finished in 1489. It was made for the Residenza dell'Opera in the Cathedral of Santa ...
Madonna and Child
Andrea della Robbia made many half-length reliefs of the Madonna and Child, some of which are known in multiple versions. This particularly fine and complex composition is the only one of its kind surviving. The Madonna ...
Madonna and Child
Gentilini and others attribute this rare full-length slazed terracotta statue of the Madonna and Child to the young Andrea della Robbia, possibly working from drawings by Luca della Robbia. This work was made in 1460, just ...
Madonna and Child with Angels
This glazed terracotta lunette of the Madonna and Child with angels, along with the glazed terracotta ornament on the barrel vault above, was commissioned in 1504 , brought to Pistoia in July 1505, and installed by the ...
Madonna Adoring the Child
Andrea della Robbia made several versions of this composition, probably using a mold. He then customized each, for example by changing the framing elements and adding a familial coat of arms. Here the arms are those of ...
Madonna and Child with Saints Stephen and Lawrence
The glazed terracotta lunette over the door to Prato Cathedral was commissioned from Andrea della Robbia in 1489 but not installed into the pre-existing Gothic architecture until until 1496. In the same years, Andrea ...
Madonna and Child with Angels
This glazed terracotta lunette sits above the entrance to the Badia on the Via del Proconsulo in Florence. Here Andrea has adapted the half-length intimate reliefs of the Madonna and Child that he and his uncle made for ...
Virgin and Child with Saints Cosmas and Damian
This glazed terracotta altarpiece by Andrea della Robbia was commissioned by Francesco Sassetti for his chapel in the Badia Fiesolana. The reconstruction of the Badia was financed by Cosimo de' Medici and completed in 1466. ...
Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Ursula
This glazed terracotta lunette was made for the church of Sant'Orsola in Florence and is currently housed in the portico of the Accademia dei Belli Arti in Florence. Andrea della Robbia (and his uncle Luca) made several ...
Madonna and Child
This half-length glazed terracotta Madonna and Child is currently housed in a street-corner tabernacle on Via della Scala in Florence (at Via degli Orti Oricellari). It is difficult to see, as it is placed high at this ...