Today I'm going to try not to talk too much and just let you look and be inspired. This is part of Palazzo Trinci. It is now a museum here in our main Piazza in Foligno. It was originally a palace of the Trinci family build in the 1400's. The story goes that at one point the Pope did not like how powerful the Trinci's were becoming and sent his men to kill the whole family within one night, 80 people were killed including all the servants and guards, one boy of the family was spared because he was away in the country The Medieval times were brutal.
Now try to look at all this from a design point. Dissect each motif and imagine how gorgeous it could look simple on a piece of furniture. I love the leafy design inside the tiny diamond shape. The octagon shape has the cool perspective from afar, because four sides are outlined in white, four sides are outlined in black, the same is true of the diamonds.
You can't help wondering what it looked like in the 1400's. I love this arched wall, with the rich parchment color, brown and blood red.
Imagine these designs on a long wooden plank table.
The mocha brown ceiling could be really modern as one wall in a living room with the dark star asterisks, even sporadically painted, not hard to paint at all.
Isn't this wall just crazy? What were they thinking? You can hardly notice the window, it's so cool.
Was that interesting? Does it make you feel like we as people now want instant gratification, our patience level is so low. Back in the 1400's life was fragile and short, but patience for art and process was long. Think how long people were willing to wait for love and when they found it they cherished it because maybe they knew it might not come around again. I believe I could just work on my own patience. And you?
Happy Weekend dear readers.
Natalie
Stunning! I love the stars especially.
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