Girolamo della Robbia

Girolamo della Robbia: Standing boy as a fountain figure. around 1515 - 1520. Berlin, sculpture collection and museum for Byzantine art

Girolamo Domenico della Robbia (born March 9, 1488 in Florence , † August 4, 1566 in Paris ) was an Italian sculptor and architect.

Life

Girolamo della Robbia was the son of the sculptor Andrea della Robbia and his wife Giovanna di Piero di Ser Lorenzo di Paolo. He was trained by his father. He was married to Luisa di Piero. Around 1529, at the invitation of King Francis I , he moved to France, where, with interruptions, he helped build the Château de Madrid in the Bois de Boulogne until 1563 . The "porcelain lock", which is no longer preserved today, was created using the della Robbia glaze technique and is considered to be his most important work. After the king's death, he returned to Florence for a short time. There his art style was now considered out of date, so that he settled again in France. In 1546 he received tax exemption. In 1563 he made two marble figures for the grave of King Franz II and for the grave of Charles IX. and Catherine de Medici two marble angels and a reclining statue of the queen, which remained unfinished. He was the progenitor of the French line of della Robbia, which can be traced back to at least 1654.

He belonged to the third generation of the important Florentine family of artists. His works are solidly executed and are entirely in the tradition of the della Robbia workshop.

Works (selection)

• Berlin , Sculpture Collection and Museum of Byzantine Art
  • Standing boy as a fountain figure. around 1515–1520
• Jesi , Museo Civico
  • Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
• Jesi, Museo e Pinacoteca Comunali
  • Adoration of the child.
• Los Angeles , J. Paul Getty Museum
  • Portrait bust of a man. around 1526 - 1531
• New York City , Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Portrait of the French King Francis I around 1529
• Paris , Musee National du Louvre
  • Reclining statue of Catherine de Medici.
  • Medallion with an unexplained allegory. (attributed)
• Siena , San Cristoforo
  • Saint Galganus. (attributed)
• Volterra , Museo Diocesano d'Arte Sacra
  • Saint Michael. (attributed - perhaps with the help of a student, or workshop work)

literature

• Paul Schubring , Lucca della Robbia and his family. Bielefeld / Leipzig 1905.
• Robbia, Girolamo della . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 413-414 .
• Giancarlo Gentilini:  Della Robbia, Girolamo Domenico. In: Massimiliano Pavan (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 37:  Della Fratta – Della Volpaia. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1989.

Web links

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