ArtNet reported yesterday the discovery of a bust by the fifteenth century Florentine sculptor Donatello in a small museum in Slovakia. The carving is a portrait of Cecilia Gonzaga and is thought to have travelled to what was then northern Hungary through a family marriage.
The survival of the work is fortuitous considering its treatment since 1945, and one must hope indeed that it receives a new setting appropriate to its importance.
The article about the work, with a photographic scan of the sculpture can be seen at Donatello Masterpiece Identified After Decades in Storage
Wikipedia has a short account of the family estate and house where the sculpture was kept until 1975 and which can be seen at Spišský Hrhov
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