Director William Mathewson Milliken of the Cleveland Museum of Art gloated last week in the thought that he had been able to purchase the first original marble by Luca Delia Robbia ever to enter this country.
At one period no U. S. tourist returned 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...
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