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The Sky Over Nine Columns

This monumental installation was created by Heinz Mack for the 2014 Venice Biennale. It is made up of nine columns, each over 7 metres high, with a light-reflective gold surface composed of over 850,000 hand-beaten 24k gold-leaf tiles.
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Marino Menegazzo
Venice, Italy
The craft of goldbeating reached Venice from Byzantium around the year 1000, when trade relations were thriving. In the capital of the Empire this cra ...
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