Arms of Gianfigliazzi Impaling Adimari
della Robbia
ca. 1525 · Glazed terracotta · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
The arms are those of Gianfigliazzi (a blue lion on a gold ground) impaling Adimari (gold over blue in equal parts), for Borgianni di Gherardo Gianfigliazzi and Caterina di Piero Adimari, who were married in Florence in 1509. Large, colored, weather-proof sculptural armorial compositions such as this were fixed onto the exterior or courtyard wall of the owner's house.
- Artist
- della Robbia
- Date
- ca. 1525
- Medium
- Glazed terracotta
- Culture
- Italian, Florence
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1918
