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‘The same may be said of Vignola’s unexecuted design for the facade of the Gesù in Rome (c[irca]1570[ce]), which exhibits a comparable formality, complexity,[*] and fragility, and which Pevsner has characteristically interpreted as reflecting the “tormenting self-doubt” of the Counter-Reformation.’

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*{‘Complexity’ is a recurring theme here}

[as are tension and intensity]

** – [Encyclopaedia of Visual Art 4: 683]

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