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Today visitors can see sections of Gaddi's preparatory underdrawing, and some of the artist's pentimenti, or self-corrections, including a now-diaphanous tree used to cover up a misplaced sign.
WSJ: A Heavenly View From On High | Basilica of Santa Croce | Agnolo Gaddi | By Francis X. Rocca
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Viewing the works as they were never meant to be seen, at eye level, we discover the thoroughness of Gaddi's craftsmanship, in the care he devoted even to sections invisible from below.
WSJ: A Heavenly View From On High | Basilica of Santa Croce | Agnolo Gaddi | By Francis X. Rocca
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We seem to be a long way from the Exaltation of the Cross, the subject of the last scene in Gaddi's fresco cycle, in which the Emperor Heraclius, having alighted from his horse by order of an angel and walking barefoot like a mendicant friar, bears the relic into the holy city.
WSJ: A Heavenly View From On High | Basilica of Santa Croce | Agnolo Gaddi | By Francis X. Rocca