Girls from the reformatory drew after her. Donatello's bust from Levoča can be the envy of the world

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The bust of Cecilia Gonzago was created in the 15th century.

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When Mária Novotná started working as a young art historian at the Spiš Museum in Levoča in the 1980s, she was given the task of processing part of the collection. There, she came across a marble bust of a young woman with the inscription Ceciliae Gonzagae Opvs Donatelli. She decided that it was most likely a 19th-century copy of a famous Renaissance sculptor, and she didn’t bother with it anymore. It has been in the depository ever since. It ha…