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Albi Sainte-Cecile Cathedral
$22.00
The largest brick cathedral in the world, on the banks of the Tarn in southern France. The outside reads as a fortress, built in the decades after the Albigensian Crusade, when the Church wanted Catharism's last embers to see something they could not knock down. The inside is the opposite argument. Every surface of the vault is painted: a blue ceiling, gold stars, the largest expanse of Italian Renaissance painting in France running across the floor of heaven. The Last Judgment covers the west wall. The two faces of the building seem to belong to different religions.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.