Bust of Eleonora of Aragon

Whereas Mino, Desiderio and Agostino felt the strong call of Donatello’s realism, the Dalmatian sculptor, through the culture of Urbino and a “Gothic” interpretation of the lessons of Leon Battista Alberti and Piero della Francesca, arrived at these images in which worldly exquisiteness is symbolised in the metaphysical harmony of forms, chiselled on geometric modules.