Crafts

Of the three series of reliefs that adorn the St. Mark’s portal, that of the trades was certainly the last to be created. It renewed the usual iconography with an ingenious variety of motifs, linking the different figures by means of vibrant light and dark passages, creating complex spatial suggestions in the flow of the planes. In this way there was a substitution of the hard, plastic Romanesque with a new pictorial way of intending sculpture.