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Description: | Artist: Della Robbia, Giovanni, workshop - Italian sculptor and ceramist, 1469-1529; Date(s): in or after 1853; Classification(s): sculpture, relief, moulding in relief, buff, slightly pinkish terracotta, tin-glazed white on the front; dribbles of glaze on the back. Glaze colours: opaque lavender-blue lighter translucent blue, and manganese-purple.; Acquisition: given by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1928, Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum [M.2-1928]
Description: Buff, slightly pinkish moulded terracotta, tin-glazed white on the front; dribbles of glaze on the back. Triangular framgent with flat lower edge. The back is hollowed out where it projects at the front. The right edge is smooth and has some cement attached to the middle; the left side has been broken irregularly. Glaze colours: opaque lavender-blue lighter translucent blue, and manganese-purple.
A pope, possibly St Gregory, kneels in profile to right. His head is raised and his left hand rests on his chest; his right hand is held just above waist level and originally had the fingers extended. He is bearded and bareheaded; his tiara rests on a bank of clouds behind him and there is another bank of clouds in front of him. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | sculpture Della Robbia, Giovanni relief | Temporal: | name=mid-19th Century; start=1853; end=1853 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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