Capital in the Crypt

As in the Progenitors in the crypt of S. Zeno in Verona, the recovery of the values proper to sculpture, with a sense of heavy, laboured materiality, appears roughed out in these elementary and coarse figures; they take shape harshly but peremptorily with the pent-up energy of Etruscan canopic jars; their psychological dullness does not prevent them from achieving a meaningful figurativeness.