Ambo

Again in the Abruzzi, the ambo of the second half of the twelfth century exploits belated formulas that, in the figures, seem to draw on the Como tradition. It is not, however, a provincial work incapable of updating, but rather a refined piece of classical and Eastern flavour, which chooses themes suited to being composed within a pre-established, luxuriant decorative scheme, in which the lion reproduced here seems emblematically enveloped.