ROMANO, Gian Cristoforo
(b. ca. 1465, Roma, d. 1512, Loreto)

Beatrice d'Este (rear view)

c. 1490
Marble, height 59 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

On the bust Romano acknowledges but restrains the fussy Lombard taste in the decorative detail of the costume and head-dress. Her intricate coiffure terminates in long a braid, neatly bound with ribbons, which falls down her back like a plumb line.