GOTHIC SCULPTOR, French
(active mid 13th century)

Signs of the Zodiac and Labours of the Months

c. 1250
Stone
Cathedral, Amiens

The developments which took place in the architectural figure sculptures are to be found in the reliefs too, though these, curiously enough, show a much more conciously aesthetic handling, as in the decorative arrangement of narrative scenes, or of decorative reliefs like the signs of the zodiac within "gothic" frames at Amiens.