Sunday, May 5, 2024
People have been creating art for thousands of years in the form of cave or tomb paintings, sculptures, architecture, and religious artifacts, and art will stick around—God’s new creation someday, a work of art, will be around forever after all. Unfortunately we cannot say the same for clay. It is […]
King Louis XIV of France strolls through the famous Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. Sparkling crystal chandeliers tower above his wigged head, as well as the vaulted ceiling, 40 feet in height and covered in extravagant murals idolizing him as the Sun King. Seventeen giant mirrors, the height of luxury […]
Rome. Early 1500s. Imagine standing on a flimsy platform held up by scaffolding, around 40 feet above the floor, craning your neck up at a ceiling whilst painting lifelike frescoes on wet plaster. Imagine wet plaster and paint dripping onto your face for hours a day. Imagine doing this work […]