Oplenac, Serbia: Built by King Petar 1--a church and mausoleum for his ancestors and descendants. Interior designs are mosaics, including 6 million pieces
Artist/author, Nancy Canyon, creates her paintings in a vintage art studio/gallery located in Historic Fairhaven.: Raven Chronicles, Water~Stone Review, Fourth Genre, Floating Bridge Review, Clover, Her paintings, photographs, poems, and prose are widely published. Nancy works for Whatcom Community College Community Ed teaching writing and the illustrated journal. She has penned three novels and is working on a memoir detailing two summers spent as a fire lookout attendant in the Clearwater National Forest in the early70s. She is a writing teacher for WWC and a coach for The Narrative Project. She is married with three grown children, a cat named Sid and a dog named Olive. She loves to dance and laugh with her friends, and to spend time in nature. See more at http://nancyloucanyon.blogspot.com and www.nancycanyon.com
Art tells stories. In churches and on rocks and in catacombs, art tells about how saints raised people up from the dead, or healed them from illnesses. Art, as a narrative, tells the story of heaven and hell. In many pieces, the Christian story of Mary is told. There are many Madonna and Child paintings. Rome is noted for all the story paintings. On the Cistine Chapel, the paintings are stretched and altered to look natural so far below. Astrological characters are found on Italian ceilings: Jupiter, Neptune, Gemini. All of it is beautiful, and amazing in its execution.