Gallery
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, 1598–1680), Kneeling Angel, 1672, Terra cotta, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, 1937.64.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, 1598–1680), Kneeling Angel, 1672, Terra cotta, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, 1937.63.
Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s terra cotta army pit 2 in Xian, Shaanxi province, China, 2014, Sergio Azenha / Alamy Stock Photo.
Architectural Brick with Ogre Mask, 750–799 ce, China, Molded terra cotta with traces of slip pigment, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1984.1340.
Bomb, Federal Seaboard Terra Cotta Corporation, New Jersey, United States, ca. 1918, Terra cotta, The Chipstone Foundation, 2014.18, Photo by Gavin Ashworth.
Statuette of a Serving Girl, Egypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 bce), Dynasties 18–19, Terra cotta (originally painted), The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.107.
Horse, 600–550 bce, Archaic Period, Greece, possibly Boeotia region, Terra cotta, 7 5/8 × 5 × 2 1/8 in. (19.4 × 12.7 × 5.4 cm), The Menil Collection, Houston, Photo by Paul Hester.
Andrea del Verrocchio (Florentine, ca. 1435–1488), Giuliano de’ Medici, ca. 1475, Terra cotta, National Gallery of Art, 1937.1.127.
Etruria, Architectural Relief Depicting the Gigantomachy (Battle Between Gods and Giants), 300-101BCE. Katherine K. Adler Memorial Fund, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1984.2.
Piggy Bank, Java, Majapahit Dynasty, 1300–1400, Terra cotta, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980.16.
Andrea Soldi (Italian, 1703–1771), John Michael Rysbrack Modelling His Terra-Cotta Statue of Hercules, 1753, Oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, b1976.7.75.
Gabriel Orozco (Mexican, 1962–), My Hands Are My Heart (Mis manos son mi corazon), 1991, Silver dye bleach print (Cibachrome, 2 parts), Marian Goodman Gallery, 3894.
“It is not the material,
but the absence of the human labour,
which makes the thing worthless;
and a piece of terra cotta, or of plaster of Paris,
which has been wrought by the human hand,
is worth all the stone in Carrara,
cut by machinery.”
—John Ruskin
Abin Design Studio, Gallery House, 2020, Bansberia, West Begal, India, Photo by Edmund Sumner.
Altar, 19th Century, Benin City, Terra cotta, The British Museum, Af1954,23.282, © The Trustees of the British Museum.
Elizabeth Catlett (Mexican (born United States), 1915–2012), Mother and Child, ca. 1956, Terra cotta, Philadelphia Museum of Art: 125th Anniversary Acquisition. Purchased with funds contributed by Willabell Clayton, Dr. Constance E. Clayton, and Mr. and Mrs. James B. Straw in honor of the 125th Anniversary of the Museum and in celebration of African American art, 2000, 2000-36-1 © Catlett Mora Family Trust / Licensed by vaga at Artists Rights Society (ars), New York.
Andrea della Robbia (Italian, 1435–1525), Virgin and Child, ca. 1470, Glazed terra cotta, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 69.113.
John Flaxman (British, 1755–1826), Self-portrait, 1778, Terra cotta in high-relief and gold painted wood, The Victoria and Albert Museum, 294:1, 2-1864, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Paw prints on terra cotta. Photo, staff.
