Month of February

Faithful to the Romanesque tradition of ornamental bands adorning the jambs and archivolts of doorways – spontaneously in keeping with sumptuous Venetian taste – and availing themselves of a most elegant background “fabric” of interlacing plant forms, such as might appeal to the nearby East, the thirteenth-century sculptors of San Marco nevertheless show that they had felt the plastic lesson of Antelami and accepted his call to bring out human values.