Aug 3
Save a Renaissance science fiction painting and church
Seen here, detail of an incredibly strange Renaissance painting inside the Church of San Pietro located in Montalcino, Italy. Painted by the artist Bonaventura Salimbeni (1567-1613), the artwork, titled “Glorification of the Eucharist,” looks like the cover of a science fiction novel. Indeed, it’s been nicknamed “Sputnik”…
