Symmetry is the dominant compositional gene both at San Marco and in all of Florence. To say it's an exclusive distinction of plain aesthetics is, of course, quite wrong, but it is an essential one in 20th century movements of plainness, or as a friend puts it, of ornament-crime. I've always thought of Brancusi's Endless Column as a corollary, the uncrossed vertical of the Christian cross.
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