In other cases are pretty Italian ladies, such as Julia Astalla, Lucrezia Tornabuoni, with her hair in curls just as in Ghirlandaio's frescoes, Costanza Rucellai, Leonora Altoviti, Maria Poliziano, and Maria de' Mucini.
And so we come to the della Robbias, without whose joyous, radiant art Florence would be only half as beautiful as she is.

Of these exquisite artists Luca, the uncle, born in 1400, was by far the greatest.

Andrea, his nephew, born in 1435, came next, and then Giovanni.

Luca seems to have been a serious, quiet man who would probably have made sculpture not much below his friend Donatello's had not he chanced on the discovery of a means of colouring and glazing terra-cotta.

Examples of this craft are seen all over Florence both within doors and out, as the pages of this book indicate, but at the Bargello is the greatest number of small pieces gathered together.