Dormitio Virginis

Alongside the schools of Antelamic derivation, archaizing currents persisted in Italy, either because they lagged behind the evolution of taste or because they were independently linked to particular French schools. This is the case with the sculptures on the jubé at Vezzolano, probably the work of French craftsmen, not without a spirited, captivating humour, which indicate one of the minor paths of Romanesque, halfway between the provincial and the mannered.