The most outstanding feature of Italian ceramics in the Middle Ages are the enameled monumental pottery pieces, from the 11th to the 13th century. Then the vessels followed with metallic reflections. The majolicas or vessels of nacreous and golden reflections reached their glorious epoch as well as the faenas or fayenzas (of the city of Faenza) in the XV and XVI centuries, being their centers Urbino, Faenza, Siena, Forlì, Ravenna, Rimini, Bologna or Ferrara among others. The sculptor Luca Della Robbia received a great celebrity in the sixteenth century for his patterned barros depicting religious subjects enameled in blue and white.

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