You have a very stable architectural form in the middle, and that might well create a sense of stability; but in Titian's hands, it doesn't, because he's got this wonderful diagonal that moves up from the lower right corner through the figure that is draped in red that some art historians think may be St. Jerome, through the shoulders of Christ, to Mary, wearing blue, finally to Mary Magdalene, who stands, and then that line is stopped by her right hand. 