Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Foundling Infants Roundels (in situ)
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Foundling Infants Roundels (in situ)
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Alternate Title:
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Infants in Swaddling Clothes
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Image View:
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One of the replaced roundels
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Creator:
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Andrea della Robbia (Italian ceramicist, 1435-ca. 1528)
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Location:
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repository: Museo dell'Ospedale degli Innocenti (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Piazza SS. Annunziata, 13; Ospedale degli Innocenti exterior
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GPS:
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+43.776308+11.261214
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Date:
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ca. 1487-1490 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Fifteenth century; Renaissance
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Work Type 1:
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tondo
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Work Type 2:
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bas-relief (sculpture)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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tin-glazed ceramic
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Technique:
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casting (process); fabrication attributes: ceramics
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Subjects:
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genre; human figure; infants; swaddling clothes; foundlings; babies
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Description:
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The façade is made up of nine semicircular arches springing from columns of the Composite order. In the spandrels of the arches there are tin-glazed blue terracotta roundels with reliefs of babies designed by Andrea della Robbia suggesting the function of the building (a foundling orphanage). Ten roundels were installed in ca. 1487, all unique in terms of pose and details of the swaddling clothes. In 1845, 2 additional pairs of "bambini," reproductions of some of the originals, were installed at either end. A few of the tondi are still the original ones, but most of the original surviving tondi have been moved inside to the museum. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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6A1-ROBBIA-MI-PSC-A08
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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