Dormitio Virginis

More nervous and exacerbated is the manner of the evocative “Dormitio Virginis”, certainly by another hand. Given the wealth of experience that seems to converge in these Lombard stuccoes, a dating after 1000 is reasonable, though still short of the Romanesque; indeed, these reliefs are profoundly separated from that revolutionary figurative language by the courtly, composed classicism of the one and the excited, captious fragility of the other.