Two Saints from the Shrine of the High Altar

Exponents of one of the many strands of the prolific and highly active Campionese school – architects and master builders as well as stonecutters – the sculptors of these stocky, wild-eyed figures, already predisposed, despite the thickness of their limbs, to take on Gothic movements (note the tendency of the bodies to arch), adopt openly expressionistic models, far removed from any classical eurhythmy.