Powers, H. H. (Harry Huntington), 1859-1936 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 94
scene takes place underneath the familiarcanopy, through an opening in which passes the ascendingfigure to a little second story, small and flimsy. Here againwe need help where once all was familiar. This is the deviceof the mediaeval theatre, whose two or three storied stagerepresented earth and… … 76 Mornings with Masters of Art device. The upper story is unmistakably heaven. It isdifficult to be perfectly sure of Giottos detail in a work socarefully restored as is this painting, which has been butrecently recovered from the concealing whitewash, but ifthis is anywise true of Giotto, he…
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