Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Foundling Infants Roundels [restored originals]
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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 [restored originals]
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Alternate Title:
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Infants in Swaddling Clothes [restored originals]
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Image View:
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Detail, original tondo showing glaze colors
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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; inside the museum
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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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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; Restoration and conservation; 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 these surviving original tondi have been moved inside the museum and restored. (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-B02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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