Capital with the "Stories" of St. Ursus

After the early twelfth century, the appearance in Italy of many skilled and vigorous stonecutters results in a number of schools and sub-schools, related among them­selves but not developing one from another in any direct line. The master of the Aosta cloister, where some of the capitals have probable antecedents in Pavia, shows a bizarre roughness of expression that places him among the earliest of that period.