GIROLAMO DELLA ROBBIA (1488-1566), another of Andrea's sons, was an architect and a sculptor in marble and bronze as well as in enamelled clay. During the first part of his life he worked with his father, but in 1528 he went to France and spent nearly 4o years in the service of the French Royal family. Francis I. employed him to build a palace in the Bois de Boulogne called the Château de Madrid, decorated richly with terra-cotta me dallions, friezes and other architectural features. For this pur pose he set up kilns at Suresnes. Though the palace has been destroyed, drawings of it exist.
The best collections of Robbia ware are in the Florentine Bargello, Accademia, and Museo del Duomo; the Victoria and Albert museum (the finest out of Italy) ; the Louvre, the Cluny and the Berlin museums; while fine examples are to be found in New York, Boston, Leningrad and Vienna. Many fine specimens exist in private collections in England, France, Germany and the United States. The greater part of the Robbia work still remains in the churches and other buildings of Italy, especially in Flor ence, Fiesole, Arezzo, La Verna, Volterra, Barga, Montepulciano, Lucca, Pistoia, Prato, and Siena.
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