This pair of glazed terracotta sculptures forming and Annunciation were originally made for the Observant Franciscan church of Santa Maria in Fontecastello (near Montelpulciano, where they are currently housed in the Museo ...

This half-length Madonna and Child was moved to its current location in San Michele in Lucca in c. 1910. At one point it was in a lunette over a door, but the original location of the relief is unknown -- possibly for a ...

These painted terracotta sculptures of the mourning Virgin Mary and St. John the Evangelist flank an older crucifix, which was originally a processional cross, but then was affixed here, with a frescoed backdrop and the ...

This is one of many low relief glazed terracotta images made by the workshop of Andrea della Robbia. These compositions were reproduced using molds, at which point slight variations could be added to customize the sculpting ...

Jacopo della Quercia, Francesco di Valdambrino, and other Sienese artists made made many of these pairs of large (almost life-size) statues of the the Angel Gabriel and the Virgin Mary, possibly to stand in niches on either ...

Mary is here a monumental figure, enthroned, clothed in sumptuous brocade and gold, her hair gilded. Jesus is much less grand in girth and turns away to face his mother, but he too wears brocaded royal red, blue, and gold ...

These painted wood sculptures of the mourning Virgin Mary and St. John the Evangelist were originally made to stand on either side of a crucifix. They come from the Spedale di Santa Chiara in Pisa and are currently housed ...

These painted wood statues of the Annunciate Virgin and the Angel Gabriel are from the convent of San Francesco in Pisa, which became (after deconsecration) the Museo Civico and then the Museo di San Matteo, where these ...

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 ...

This large-scale, well-preserved Deposition group (with the original cross, ladder, and pliers for removing the nails) is documented to have been made for the Cathedral of Volterra, where it still stands, in 1228. It is ...