Arezzo Cathedral

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Like most churches in Italy, the really wonderful art is hidden in shadows, illuminated only two or three times a year on Easter or Christmas.  So when you visit, you’re likely not to be able to see what’s really there.

Here’s part of the ceiling of the Arezzo Cathedral as you would see it.

Pretty dark.  So I took a long exposure with a very stable foundation and got this:

Then I post-production applied denoise filters and some exposure enhancements and cropped the picture so you could see the two panels:

Lots going on up there on the ceiling.

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Richard Bridgan

Amazing and wonderful! Thank you for sharing.

I simply cannot imagine that these striking and spectacular works were executed simply by the drive of vocational craftsmanship, (whether by internal, external, or overlapping motivation). These works are marked by an identity of faith that seeks to enjoin those within and beneath its material dimension to faith as the proper response, and community as the actual context.

Gayle Johnson

I agree with Richard. They are definitely spectacular works, and when I view them, I am stunned by their beauty. How did the artists have the persistence to complete such an immense, and obviously, long-term project?

In the next life, will we be able to encounter the ones who actually made the brush strokes for such a wonderful illustration? I hope so, because it seems as if they would be beautiful souls.