Here in the canal city of Venice, sun and water reflect off artist Heinz Mack’s sculpture called The Sky Over Nine Columns. The piece was on display here in on the island of San Giorgio Magiorre in 2014, during the Venice Architecture Biennale, and later traveled to Istanbul and Valencia. Visitors are encouraged to wander through the pillars as if wandering through a temple connecting the Earth to the sky. A closer look reveals the massive pillars are covered in 850,000 mosaic tiles coated in 24-carat gold leaf.
The Sky Over Nine Columns in Venice, Italy
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
Reflections on Memorial Day
-
Dog days of summer
-
Reflecting on Black History Month
-
Cumberland Island National Seashore
-
Nazar amulets, Goreme National Park, Cappadocia, Turkey
-
Fin whales: A success story
-
Maritime forest on Cumberland Island, Georgia
-
Feature Attraction: 85 years at the drive-in
-
’Chess on ice’
-
Get the bear facts
-
A growing business
-
Anybody out there?
-
Pasadena Chalk Festival supports local arts education
-
The view will stop you in your tracks
-
Hiding in plain sight
-
American robin
-
Let’s celebrate
-
Sequential images of a total solar eclipse
-
Life in a North African town
-
‘The memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever’