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\u2026 in the Adoration chapel of my parish is this painting by Louis Guidett<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Breathtaking isn\u2019t She? At one point I sneaked in the chapel while they were still doing construction and took a few pictures with my chintzy little cell phone but the images did not do justice to the color and detail of this wonderful piece [*Posting those images from my phone would have been a crime]. So here is a detail from the artist\u2019s webpage. Guidett studied at the Lorenzo de Medici\u2019s School of Art, and later, at the Florence Academy of Art where he studied with realist painter, Daniel Graves<\/a>. Now he paints out of his home studio here in Winston-Salem, NC. We\u2019ve got a few very talented local artists around these parts. Remind me to one day tell y\u2019all about Matthew S. Good\u2019s<\/a> pentaptych entitled \u201cLitany of the Saints\u201d painted on the west gallery rail of St. Charles Borromeo Church in Morganton, NC. <\/p>\n

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Here is another shot of the same piece from artist Lisa Autry\u2019s website<\/a>. Autry did the detail work and gold leafing on the walls and ceilings of the chapel. She also did the hand stenciled gold leafing to the statue niches<\/a> in the main part of the church. Again, the above picture does not do justice to Guidett\u2019s painting or Autry\u2019s skill. You can\u2019t see from this image that the entire arched Gothic styled vaulted ceiling is painted and adorned with gold stars. <\/p>\n

*I\u2019m not one of those art snobs that thinks paintings should not be reproduced in books or online but I do see merit in the logic. Nothing can compare to viewing a work in person with out the obstructed filter of a photography lens. It\u2019s really not the same. You will be surprised by the differences and many times may not even recognize a piece when you go to view it in a museum for the first time. Our eyes process more color than cameras can capture or a scanner can reproduce for prints. Outside of the practical purposes for study, mass produced images of great art really are travesties. We still need galleries and museums. Not everything is lost to technology. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"