Annunciation to the Resurrection appear in the arches above the door, with the Nativity occupying the central position of the tympanum, which was unusual for the time. It is a reflection of the spirit of the new Gothic age to replace the dire warning of the Last Judgement above the doorway, with a message of love and hope. Down both sides of the portal is a sequence of reliefs representing the months of the year. The figures here are particularly animated, and the scenes are taken from contemporary life. For example, December is shown as the month to butcher the pig and make sausages, followed by January where an old man sits by the fireside cooking, while a young man pours wine from an amphora in a reference to Aquarius the water carrier. The realism of such scenes, and the representation of everyday life of the people is a move to Gothic ideas, with its focus on contemporary humanist issues and real characters. Paintings in Croatia from this time include frescoes, paintings on wood panels and illuminated manuscripts. The early Romanesque frescoes in St Michael in Ston date to the 11th/12th century, and are related to the Benedictine Abbey of St Michael on Monte Gargano. Sadly only fragments of the Ston frescoes still survive, a series of biblical figures, portrayed full-face, dressed in richly ornamented robes. In typical early Romanesque style, the figures are static, described with lines, without much depth or form in the background. The Zadar Benedictine church has 12th century frescoes in a similar style, but not so brightly coloured and less linear. Meanwhile in Istria, there are different fresco styles and influences to be seen from the 12th century. The western Ottonian style of art (St Michael int Kloštar at Lim Bay), Byzantine Comnenian style from the Aquileia workshop (St Jerome’s church in Hum), and a combination of both western and Byzantine styles (St. Foška at Batvači near Peroj). Paintings of the time on wood were generally icons of the Virgin Mary with Child or of the Crucifixion. There are six surviving Romanesque Virgin with Child icons in Croatia, the oldest of which is the Madonna from Saint Sylvester’s Church on the island of Biševo (1220), now in Hvar Cathedral The figures of mother and child are Byzantine in style, combined with a typical Romanesque use of line and colour. Two painted crucifixes from the Franciscan