Luca Della Robbia Biography
Luca della Robbia (Florence, 1399/1400 – 1485) was an Italian artist, sculptor, ceramist and goldsmith.
He stood out for his style marked by the purest classicism, characterized by impeccable attention to finishes and details. His fame is linked above all to the glazed terracotta technique, which inaugurated a new artistic movement by combining painting and sculpture in an impeccable and resistant way over time. His works, such as the refined Madonnas, portrait busts and sacred scenes, often present the same beauty and expressive effectiveness as those of the other great artists of the time, such as Donatello, Verrocchio and Filippo Lippi.
His first documented work is the Choir for the Cathedral, carried out between 1431 and 1438, which consisted of an elegant balcony with classical lines, decorated with six reliefs and four other panels placed between the brackets. The reliefs represented Psalm 150, whose writing in capital letters ran along the bands at the top, bottom and under the shelves. The groups of young people present in the depictions sang, danced and played, giving life to an expression of serene classical beauty, enlivened by a naturalness that amplified its expressive effectiveness.
