Legend of King Arthur

With this series of knights, whose complicated armour does not take away their graceful bearing but rather accentuates, at least to our eyes as posterity, a fairy-tale enchantment, the severity of Wiligelmo has been entirely replaced by a narrative vein of sure charm, which well conveys the chivalric and secular inspiration of the story. It is the episode of the assault on the castle of Mardoc, depicted on the Porta della Pescheria; the artist has exploited with florid intelligence the ascending movement necessarily imposed by the arched scheme of the lunette.