At top God the Father presides over the
Pieta below. At left we have St. Jerome with a model of a
church (a common Gothic presentation) and John the Baptist at
right. While Gothic (check those Frisbee halos!), the fabric
folds and facial expressions presage the Renaissance. (Could
Mary look more sour?) Check the intricacy of the leaf work,
perhaps done by one anonymous member of the Petrovic workshop.
(Medieval craftsmen tended to specialize in certain objects and
often left the faces for the master to carve.)How much of this
building is found art? Were these humble ashlar stones chiseled
from those that fell when the trembling of the earth destroyed
the building that came before?
