Pulpit

This solemn pulpit is considered the masterpiece of the Como stonemasons; from the very quality of the serpentine marble it draws effects of metallic sheen and darkness. The heraldic, essentially decorative rhythm of so many medieval sculptures is arrested here in a supreme and daunting abstraction, lucid and cold, in which the apocalyptic figures have lost every picturesque and fabulous nuance in favour of a grave and rigorous sacredness.