Putto Playing Music

Luca extracts the sculptural work from its environmental context and isolates it in an ideal space of its own. Thus the partial application of expressive modes such as Donatello's stiacciato takes on a meaning different from the effect of continuous atmospheric vitality, accentuating instead the clear relationships between planes or the expressive notation, as in Roman reliefs. Reality is always brought back to golden proportion, crystallised in an ideal condition.