Around 1440, successful Italian sculptor Luca della Robbia forever changed Florentine art when he pioneered a tin glaze that gave terracotta a colorful shine. Before the Renaissance artist’s ...
Andrea della Robbia, “Prudence” (1475), glazed terracotta, overall: 64 3/4 inches (courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest) The terracotta sculptures of the della Robbia ...
A glazed terracotta piece from the early 16th century, which had remained for centuries in a hermitage in the Garfagnana, is ...
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Olson said that when starting the project, he had been experimenting with wood detailing in his personal cabin and looking at various combinations of glossy and matte finishes. This spirit of ...
Editor’s note: This story is an update of one that ran in 2010. Read the original Part 1 here and Part 2 here. As most people know, terra-cotta literally translated means “burnt earth,” a term the ...
London’s Oxford Street is the primary commercial corridor of the West End, running for a mile between Hyde Park and Tottenham Court Road. A motley crew of architectural styles calls the boulevard home ...
Read Part 1 of this story. Tuesday’s look at terra-cotta ornament dealt with natural, brick colored terra-cotta. That’s what most of us think of when we hear the term. But in addition to that more ...
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