Maker/Artist
Robbia, Girolamo della
Italian ceramicist, sculptor, 1488-1566
His early glazed terracotta works were done in collaboration with his father and older brothers, but later according to Giorgio Vasari, a 16th-century biographer of artists, he devoted himself to sculpture with brother Luca the Younger. Both were friends of Andrea del Sarto, who may have been the source of the influence of early Florentine Mannerism in some of their glazed terracottas produced at this time, around 1511. In 1517, Girolamo went to France where he entered the service of King Francis I. He executed many works with his brothers during the 1530s.
