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Andrea Della Robbia (1435-1525)
HISTORY OF SCULPTURE
Gothic Sculpture (1150-1280)
Cathedral Art, Ile de France.
Renaissance Art
Sculpture, Painting, Architecture.
History of Sculpture
General Guide.
His earliest works, at La Verna and Arezzo, showed much of the dignity typical of his uncle.
Della robbia blue
After this came a period of graceful works, exemplified by the altar in the Osservanza near Siena, and in the lunette overlooking the door of Prato cathedral in Tuscany. But historians consider that his sculptures in the lunette of Pistoia cathedral and those above the entrances of S.
Maria della Quercia at Viterbo lacked his previous refinement and bordered on sentimentality.
Foundling Children Tondos (Bambino Tondi)
Probably the finest work of Christian art by Andrea Della Robbia is the set of medallions comprising reliefs of babies in white on blue ground arranged on the facade of the foundling hospital at Florence (Spedale degli Innocenti).
Each quite different, these beaut
