Adam

Masterpieces by one of the greatest sculptors of the century, the Adam and the Eve are the most poetic plastic achievement of that arduous accord between the full-bodied truth of physical features and emotional character, typical of the Gothic culture of the Po Valley, and the lucid formal structure that was the torment and the aspiration of the northern Renaissance. Of the classical, nothing remains but a hint in the composition of the image; yet in the free asymmetry of the forms, modelled from life, in their energetic thrust or sensual lingering in the light, a new naturalness is recreated, an admirable integration of the particular and the universal.