# Alfonso of Aragon [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINO DA FIESOLE]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Marble, 52 x 44 cm ## Commentary Alfonso V \(1396—1458\), was the king of Aragon \(1416–58\) and king of Naples \(as Alfonso I, 1442–58\), whose military campaigns in Italy and elsewhere in the central Mediterranean made him one of the most famous men of his day. After conquering Naples, he transferred his court there. His byname was Alfonso the Magnanimous. He was a key player in Italian politics of the fifteenth century. Mino's portrait relief shows the ruler in contemporary garb. ## Related artworks - [Cardinal Guillaume d'Estouteville]() - [Charity]() - [Diotisalvi Neroni]() - [Dossal]() - [Dossal]() - [Faith]() - [Funeral Monument to Francesco Tornabuoni]() - [Giovanni de' Medici]() - [Head of a Child]() - [Madonna and Child]() - [Madonna \(detail\)]() - [Niccolò di Leonardo Strozzi]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()