The repeated quadripartite arches create a pleasing rhythm as one looks down the corridor. They break up an arched ceiling that might otherwise have resulted in a less pleasing tunnel-like effect.
Focal Point, Contrast
The arched double door at the end of the hall draws your eye and provides a focal point for your eye to rest on. The sunlit swath of green beyond the glass contrasts with the shaded white of the walls and arches.
Scale, Proportion While the arches in the corridor are at a very human scale, appropriate to the people walking down the hall, the fresco on the nave wall is monumental in size - not human scale but appropiate for the much larger space of the chapel that it decorates.
The window treatments in the chapel are also outsize, at least 30 feet in height, but the right proportion for the tall space they are in.
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