The Last Supper

Even in Gruamonte's reliefs, when the fairy-tale grace of the Ride of the Magi is lacking, the figures tend towards a stocky fixity; but, as is typical of 12th-century sculpture, this is a hieratic, ritual immobility, whereas in the 13th-century Guido da Como it is an emotional suspension that underlines, with a pause, the climax of the dramatic action.