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| | Steven Dono Statement |
 | | "The Battle of San Romano," an elaborate figure composition by the fifteenth-century master Paolo Uccello, depicting the war between Sienna and Florence, is a remarkable study in stereometric shapes. |
 | | at Phoenix Gallery, 586 Broadway, is entitled "Battle of San Romano." It is composed of massive wooded beams and poles, thirty-six verticals (some with sharp points suggesting spears or rockets) and twelve horizontals, bolted together to form a grid. |
 | | For all its expansiveness and complexity, however, "Battle of San Romano" is not an installation, but a discreet and unified sculptural entity with all the formal authority of a work by Robert Morris or Tony Smith. |
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