Dance of Salome

At the moment when Lombardy saw the explosion of the daring and grotesque forms that characterise the local Romanesque, and when at Modena, with Wiligelmo, sculpture became aware of its power to bear witness in grave and solemn cadences to the destiny of man, in Verona a mysterious master interpreted the lesson of Ottonian art in a taut and syncopated language, placing against «empty» backgrounds, as though suspended in nothingness, intense figures who express the sense of the human condition through strong dramatic agitation.