The rest of the furniture of this privileged apartment consisted of old cabinets, filled with Chinese porcelain and Japanese vases, Lucca della
Robbia faience, and Palissy platters; of old arm-chairs, in which perhaps had sat Henry IV.
Though I like things like the Della
Robbia babies better."
He had opened several retreat houses in California, where Father Luigi Sciocheti of San Francisco, one of the world's greatest religious ceramicists working in the Della
Robbia style, had already done work for him.
The pride of the gallery's displays is its Della
Robbia pottery collection, beautiful artefacts from Birkenhead's very own ceramics factory, which played a key part in the arts and crafts movement in the late 19th century.
Specifically, Arienti spoke about the process behind his interpretation of "The Resurrection of Christ" by Giovanni della
Robbia, while Buckman spoke to her experience working alongside Fremont, and the original inspiration behind "Champ," a larger-scale public installation based on her 2016 piece "Champion."
The grand smoking room was in Italian Renaissance again, with a marble chimneypiece, surmounted by a carved wooden hood copied from a Della
Robbia original.
Della
Robbia: Sculpting with Color in Renaissance Florence
As a young adult, Rojas moved to Spain and studied at the prestigious Delia
Robbia in Seville, specializing in sculpture and ceramics.
were the most prominent, while Doulton, Della
Robbia, Pilkington, Copeland and Wedgwood all produced highly collectable tiles.
Memorial is a masculine death mask resting on a tray surrounded by a della
Robbia wreath of baseballs, tennis balls, apples and bananas.
The Caccia painting is one of about 70 works in the exhibit, which include standout pieces by Luca della
Robbia, Fra Filippo Lippi, Sandro Botticelli, Albrecht Durer, Titian, Caravaggio, and Rembrandt.