The Brooklyn Della Robbia

Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, 11238, New York City

June 16, 2018 – December 31, 2027

Giovanni della Robbia's Renaissance glazed terracotta masterpiece The Resurrection of Christ is a compositional and technical tour de force. The massive relief sculpture, comprised of forty-six pieces, portrays a vision of faith and salvation unfolding amid a vibrant cornucopia of naturalistic plants, flowers, and animals. Commissioned around 1520 by the Antinori family for their villa outside Florence, it became the first Italian Renaissance work to enter the Brooklyn Museum's collection in 1899. After decades off public view, the work was restored in 2015 by the museum's conservation team with generous funding from the Antinori family.