[Pietro da Milano] (b Milan, c. 1410; d Naples, 1473). Italian sculptor, architect and medallist. He began his career in Dalmatia and was active at an important bottega in Ragusa (now Dubrovnik) from 1431. His friendship and collaboration with the Dalmatian sculptor Francesco Laurana may have begun at this time. Many of the works produced by Pietro in Ragusa were lost in the earthquake of 1667: all that survives are the reliefs of the Small Fountain (1437–8) and the capitals of the Rector’s Palace (1445), which show a restrained style with geometric, blocklike forms. Other documented works (destr.) were the Large Fountain (1437–41), a statue for the Franciscan Monastery (1441), the fountain of the monastery of S Chiara (1449) and the Tabernacle for the monastery of S Blasio (1456). In 1452 he went to Castel Nuovo in Naples, to work on the Triumphal Arch of Alfonso of Aragon with ...