Plate with Story of Numa Pompilius and Arms of Gonzaga
Urbino Potteries
c. 1560
Medium
Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
Dimensions
Diam.: 25.1 cm (9 7/8 in.)
Classification
earthenware
Department
Applied Arts of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
25398
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Urbino Potteries
The Urbino Potteries encompass the celebrated cluster of ceramic workshops, or botteghe, that flourished in the hill town of Urbino in Italy’s Marche region during the Renaissance. Simple earthenwares had been made locally since the fifteenth century, but from about 1520 the industry, actively encouraged by the Della Rovere dukes Francesco Maria I and Guidobaldo II, came to dominate the luxury mar...