Enthroned King and Stories of the Fiery Furnace

The unbridled imaginative freedom and the expressionistic force of the Veronese master bend the material to a daring rendering that remains unique in the history of the plastic arts, even taking into account the model of Mozarabic miniatures. Here the metal sheet breaks up and frays into an evocative lace, in which the action itself seems to become entangled within a space devoid of any naturalistic consistency.