History of art . Giotto. The descent from the Cross, detail, fresco.(ArenUi Padua.) Fra Angelico, Donatello and Gozzoli, Luca Signorelliand Ghirlandajo, Michael Angelo and Raphael. Thesame heaven harkens to the voice of the prophet andto the song of the shepherd as their sound rises to itssparkling spheres. Giotto is not a primitive, any more than Dante. Heis the conclusion of a long effort. If he revealed thelanguage of forms to those who came a hundred yearsafter him, it is slightly in the manner in which Phidias o H HO CD n CO o rD Oenen Ci-. 406 MEDIAEVAL ART can still reveal it to those w
History of art . Giotto. The descent from the Cross, detail, fresco.(ArenUi Padua.) Fra Angelico, Donatello and Gozzoli, Luca Signorelliand Ghirlandajo, Michael Angelo and Raphael. Thesame heaven harkens to the voice of the prophet andto the song of the shepherd as their sound rises to itssparkling spheres. Giotto is not a primitive, any more than Dante. Heis the conclusion of a long effort. If he revealed thelanguage of forms to those who came a hundred yearsafter him, it is slightly in the manner in which Phidias o H HO CD n CO o rD Oenen Ci-. 406 MEDIAEVAL ART can still reveal it to those who love him enough torefuse to follow him. Guido, Cimabue, Duccio him-self, the noble Sienese who recovered, through Byzan-tine tradition, the real soul of Greece and for the firsttime translated the drama of the Passion into terms of
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