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Although the Eve on the portal of the Lodi Cathedral is a statue set against a pier, a column-statue in the Italian manner, in execution it is close to the French style. Some consider this sculpture to be a work by Antelami from the second third of the 12th century; it was more probably carved by an Antelami follower. The expressiveness of the sorrowful face, the dynamic movement emphasized by the folds of the contemporary dress, and the linear formulations are all characteristic of the 12th-century Lombard school, in which the tradition of antiquity is enlivened by an awareness of transalpine, and especially Provençal, style.
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