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THE WALL FRESCOES
painting. “It is the golden joyous colour,
the fine rhythm of the groups, and, above
all, the buoyant spaciousness of this fresco,
that win and hold us.”1 As the axis of the
sphere within which we find ourselves is
that stately temple with its airy Renaissance
porticoes, which perhaps originated in
Italian art with Brunelleschi, was adopted
by Bramante, appears in the Sposalizio at
Caen (now attributed to Lo Spagna), and
was copied by Raphael in 1504 in his
Sposalizio. The radiation in perspective
of the pavement lends itself to the plan by
which the figures are spaced out, and the
composition kept clear and distinct. So
successful has Perugino been, that our
abiding impression is of cool, calm space, a
great polished marble floor, almost bound-
less, upon which symmetrical groups are
harmoniously arranged. The little scenes
that fill the background illustrate on the
one hand the text: “ Are ye come out to
take Me as against a thief with swords and
with staves ? I was daily with you in the
1 Berenson’s “ Central Italian Painters,” p. 108,
THE WALL FRESCOES
painting. “It is the golden joyous colour,
the fine rhythm of the groups, and, above
all, the buoyant spaciousness of this fresco,
that win and hold us.”1 As the axis of the
sphere within which we find ourselves is
that stately temple with its airy Renaissance
porticoes, which perhaps originated in
Italian art with Brunelleschi, was adopted
by Bramante, appears in the Sposalizio at
Caen (now attributed to Lo Spagna), and
was copied by Raphael in 1504 in his
Sposalizio. The radiation in perspective
of the pavement lends itself to the plan by
which the figures are spaced out, and the
composition kept clear and distinct. So
successful has Perugino been, that our
abiding impression is of cool, calm space, a
great polished marble floor, almost bound-
less, upon which symmetrical groups are
harmoniously arranged. The little scenes
that fill the background illustrate on the
one hand the text: “ Are ye come out to
take Me as against a thief with swords and
with staves ? I was daily with you in the
1 Berenson’s “ Central Italian Painters,” p. 108,