ABSTRACT
Glazed altarpieces were one of Andrea della Robbia's most successful productions: more than thirty pale attributed to the master or his workshop, created in the last three decades of the Quattrocento, are still preserved in Tuscan churches or museums, and in major European public collections such as the Musée du Louvre, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Bode Museum. This paper will focus on the role played by a monumental project by Luca della Robbia in the development of this typology, by re-evaluating the relationship between the first glazed altarpiece, the Capponi triptych in Pescia cathedral, and Luca's decoration of the twin chapels in Santa Maria in Impruneta, near Florence.
