{"id":545,"date":"2008-12-26T08:16:07","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T13:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=545"},"modified":"2015-12-27T21:40:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T02:40:33","slug":"some-church-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2008\/12\/some-church-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Church Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Boxing Day! Being the Friday after Christmas, I thought these mentions of church art were worth mentioning.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Georgia Bulletin news story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.georgiabulletin.org\/local\/2008\/03\/27\/starry\/\" target=\"_blank\">St. Peter&#8217;s Chanel Church<\/a> in Roswell, GA is newly constructed and this news story shows the process for how the many stars were painted on the ceiling to replicate the look of early Renaissance fresco techniques. I find it interesting that they used multiple glazes and a colorwash technique to create the blue canopy and metallic paint instead of gilding those stars. This makes the process easier and the outcome just as beautiful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/20080327-19.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-546\" title=\"Artist paints  5,000 stars on ceiling of St. Peter\\'s Chanel Church. Georgia Bulletin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/20080327-19.jpg\" alt=\"Artist paints  5,000 stars on ceiling of St. Peter\\'s Chanel Church. Georgia Bulletin\" width=\"350\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20080327-19.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20080327-19-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This blue reminds me of my favorite place, <a title=\"Scrovegni Chapel website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cappelladegliscrovegni.it\/eng\/index_e.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Scrovegni Chapel<\/a>, painted by Giotto in Padua, Italy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/94-scrovegni1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-547\" title=\"Scrovegni Chapel. Photo credit unknown\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/94-scrovegni1.jpg\" alt=\"Scrovegni Chapel. Photo credit unknown\" width=\"320\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/94-scrovegni1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/94-scrovegni1-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is also a beautiful sanctuary below in <a title=\"St. Patrick's from Save Our Lady Of Lourdes blog\" href=\"http:\/\/saveollmp.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/another-splendid-sanctuary.html\" target=\"_blank\">St. Patrick&#8217;s<\/a> Cathedral in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/stpat.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-548\" title=\"St. Patrick\\'s Cathedral in New Orleans. Save Our Lady of Lourdes blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/stpat.jpg\" alt=\"St. Patrick\\'s Cathedral in New Orleans. Save Our Lady of Lourdes blog\" width=\"344\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/stpat.jpg 344w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/stpat-258x300.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Boxing Day! Being the Friday after Christmas, I thought these mentions of church art were worth mentioning. St. Peter&#8217;s Chanel Church in Roswell, GA is newly constructed and this news story shows the process for how the many stars were painted on the ceiling to replicate the look of early Renaissance fresco techniques. I find it interesting that they used multiple glazes and a colorwash technique to create the blue canopy and metallic paint instead of gilding those stars. This makes the process easier and the outcome just as beautiful. This blue reminds me of my favorite place, The Scrovegni Chapel, painted by Giotto in Padua, Italy. This is also a beautiful sanctuary below in St. Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral in New Orleans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,22,1],"tags":[402,403,405,401],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-churches","category-new-orleans","category-uncategorized","tag-giotto","tag-scrovegni-chapel","tag-st-patricks-cathedral-new-orleans","tag-st-peters-chanel-church"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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