Giovanni della Robbia made this glazed terracotta sculpture on the façade of San Barnaba in Florence in 1528-9 at the behest of the guild of physicians and apothecaries (Arte dei Medici e Speziali), a guild with which ...

This glazed terracotta lunette by Giovanni della Robbia is the only one still in situ of the three lunettes that once ornamented San Jacopo a Ripoli in Florence. Giovanni often used a more varied palette but here made white ...

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 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 ...

This almost life-size creche scene in San Marco in Florence has been attributed to Giovanni della Robbia. (Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus, and the infant St. John seem to be done by one artist, whereas the two figures currently ...

This complex glazed terracotta altarpiece was commissioned for the Franciscan church of San Lucchese (near Poggibonsi) by Daddo Calcagni and his wife Tommasa Riccobaldi, whose coats of arms are in the predella. The imagery ...