Word: robbia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Luca della Robbia", Professor Post, small Fogg lecture room...
December 7--"Luca della Robbia and his school...
Smiling faces, brawny forms in dinner coats were seen in the Della Robbia room of the Vanderbilt Hotel, Manhattan, where an All-American team met for the first time in the history of football. The team was picked, the players invited, the dinner given, by the New York Sun. Sports writers of other papers were surly; they did not like to mention the Sun's dinner for the Sun had stolen a march on them. The dinner and the Sun's choice of players may become a football tradition, they knew, and moaned their vanished opportunity. Meanwhile Oberlander...
...works specified by M. Vigoroux as spurious include 1) A ceramic piece attributed to Lucca della Robbia, 15th Century Florentine sculptor, sold to an official of the Metropolitan for $3,000, and "not worth a sou." (The Metropolitan contains only one della Robbia?a terra cotta bas-relief entitled Prudence, bought in 1921 under the bequest of Joseph Pulitzer.) 2) A 15th Century statue of St. Paul, sold to Assistant Curator Breck, of the Metropolitan, for $3,000. 3) A bas-relief group, Les Lansquenets (a former type of German footsoldier; the figures were called "devils" by the people...
...Enter Madame" at the St. James Theatre this week can best be characterized as a study in temperament. It deals with Madame Lisa Della Robbia, a famous opera singer. With her many changing moods, now stormy, now sunny, yet underneath it all having a profound and unshaken love, she dominates the play and has command of every situation...