The Adoration of the Magi

The majestic balance of the spatial divisions, the liturgical eurhythmy of the gestures, even of the glances, the abrupt sculptural evidence and the still explicitly Romanesque squareness of the figuration would seem to isolate it in an arcane impassivity. Yet beneath the firm monumental structure the marble vibrates with restrained luminosity, so that the sacredness of the epiphany of the divine to man, though reaffirmed with supreme firmness, is set within a range of more accessible and universal feelings.