Fry, Roger Eliot, 1866-1934 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 128
hat the plastic unity of the whole design is more immediately appre-hended. I doubt whether in any single building one can see so manyastonishing discoveries of formal relations as Giotto has here made.Almost every composition gives one the shock of a discovery at * The attribution of the… … Giotto. Pieta Arena Chapel, Padua GIOTTO 109 once simple, inevitable, and instantly apprehended, and yet utterlyunforeseeable. In most compositions one can guess at some of thesteps by which the formal relations were established. Here one isat a loss to conceive by what flight of imagination the…
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