什麼是德拉.羅比亞家族

義大利佛羅倫斯藝術家家庭。路加.德拉.羅比亞（Luca〔di Simone di Marco〕Della Robbia, 1399/1400～1482）的第一批作品是大理石浮雕，其中最有名的是佛羅倫斯大教堂（1423～1437）北面聖器收藏室門上的《聖詩班》（Cantoria）。他主要是以發明加釉赤陶作爲雕刻材料而聞名，主要的加釉赤陶作品是布魯內萊斯基（Filippo Brunelleschi）設計的巴齊小禮拜堂（Pazzi Chapel）的《耶穌門徒》圓壁龕（約西元1444年）。當時他的工作坊成爲陶器用品工廠，尤其是以藍底白釉的聖母和聖子形象最出名。安德烈亞.德拉.羅比亞（Andrea〔di Marco〕Della Robbia, 1435～1525）爲路加.德拉.羅比亞之侄。從小被訓練爲大理石雕刻家，1482年叔父去世後接管家族工作坊。最有名的作品是佛羅倫斯兒童醫院正面的十個圓形棄嬰壁龕（約西元1463年）。喬凡尼.德拉.羅比亞（Giovanni Della Robbia, 1469～1529）是安德烈亞.德拉.羅比亞的孩子當中最傑出的。1525年其父死後接管家族工作坊。早期最着名的作品是佛羅倫斯新聖母院（Santa Maria Novella）的洗手所（1497）和和聖保羅教堂（San Paolo）涼廊（Loggia）的圖形裝飾，兩者皆與其父合作。

Della Robbia family

Family of Italian artists active in Florence. The first works of Luca (di Simone di Marco) Della Robbia (1399/1400-1482) were reliefs sculptured in marble, most notably those for the Cantoria (singing-gallery) of Florence Cathedral (1432-37). He is remembered mainly for his development of glazed terra-cotta as a medium for sculpture; his major terra-cotta works include roundels of the Apostles (c. 1444) in Filippo Brunelleschi's Pazzi Chapel in Santa Croce. In time the Della Robbia studio became a potters' workshop-industry, famous especially for its renderings of the Madonna and Child in white enamel on a blue ground. Andrea (di Marco) Della Robbia (1435-1525), Luca's nephew, assumed control of the workshop c. 1470. Trained as a marble sculptor, his best-known works are ten roundels of infants on the facade of Florence's Foundling Hospital (c. 1487). Giovanni Della Robbia (1469-1529), the most distinguished of Andrea's sons, took control of the family workshop after his father's death. His early works, notably a lavabo in Santa Maria Novella (1497) and medallions in the Loggia of San Paolo (1493-95), were collaborations with his father.