Bust of Ippolita Maria Sforza

“Laurana's busts are the expression of a court art,” Pope-Hennessy wrote. The vital tremor that animates the busts of Desiderio, and the harmony of the intimate and the monumental that immortalises the portraits of Piero della Francesca in their truest physicality, give way, in Laurana's art, to the transcription of the refined “beauties” of the Gothic repertoire into terms of humanist geometric harmony.