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...from Italy without a copy of one of the blue and white Delia Robbia bambini which decorate the façade of the Florentine Foundling Hospital. Their designer was not Cleveland's Luca Delia Robbia (1400-82), but his prolific nephew, Andrea. Luca, however, perfected the enamel-coated terra cotta ware of which they are made. A suave sculptor, he lacked the virility of his great contemporaries (Verrocchio, Donatello) but had an able talent, designed a number of pieces beloved by romantics. His greatest was the series of singing angels and dancing boys which form the "singing gallery...
Cleveland's plaque, not terra cotta but marble, was discovered and owned originally by a Parisian antiquary and art critic named Eugene Piot. In 1864 Critic Piot sold it to a fellow pamphleteer, Charles Timbal. During the post-war depression of 1870, the entire Timbal collection went to Gustave Dreyfus, a French engineer who made money out of the Suez Canal. In its turn the Dreyfus collection went up for auction in Paris. It was bought in its entirety by Sir Joseph Duveen. The Cleveland Museum, which had already picked several choice morsels at the dispersal of the Guelph...
...analyze briefly only the most important pieces in a collection which is rounded out, however, by representative works by lesser personalities: I may mention as worthy of the visitor's attention two characteristic marbles by Donatello's follower Antonio Rossellino, an idealized St. Sebastian by Civitali, three typical terra-cottas by della Robbia, and, among the North Italians, the sharply outlined profiles of the Storzas by Amadeo, and Riccio's Entombment with the figures clad in classical garments...
...harassed President Olaya Herrera decided that his country's burdens are too great to bear on a gold basis. Congress at his behest rushed through legislation similar to Britain's, barred gold exports from Colombia, barred even the exchange of Colombian pesos into dollars. Further south, President Terra of Uruguay declared that by meeting her interest obligations abroad in gold "Uruguay
...Aduite caeli quae loquor, audiat terra verba oris...