Deposition

Situated on the route to the East, the goal of merchants and crusader knights, the cathedrals of Apulia are at once the farthest modulation of the European idiom and a foreshadowing of exotic modes to come. Into the hieratic distortion of the bodies, which recall Byzantine linearity, there creeps a note of pathos that demonstrates how the roots of the Romanesque go deep into the heart of man.