The impeccable craftsmanship, substantial scale, triangular arrangement (paying homage to Michelangelo's Pieta) and substantial usage of gold within the piece references Medieval and Early Modern spiritual statues. As Koons observed, "I preferred to create him in an extremely god-like icon method. But I normally favored the radicality of Michael Ja

Compositions typically had little depth, and needed to be versatile to squeeze on their own into the styles of capitals, and church typanums; The strain in between a tightly enclosing frame, from which the composition at times escapes, is often a recurrent theme in Romanesque artwork. Figures however normally diverse in size in relation for their w