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ROBBIA, Luca della: Tondo Portrait of a Lady

🖼 Tondo Portrait of a Lady, 1465
Glazed terracotta, diameter: 54 cm
Florence, Italy

Soft glazed terracotta captures an elegant profile within a perfect circle, her refined features rendered in cool, luminous tones. This Renaissance tondo pioneered the revival of classical roundels, establishing della Robbia's revolutionary glazed ceramic technique that transformed portraiture into accessible, durable art.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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