A1 Crystal 18th century Italian gold leaf

18th century Italian gold leaf fragment decorated with a Calcite crystal in matrix on distressed canvas

Courage at Calvary

The Italian cross is preserved and transformed into a figurative

The Italian artifact and minerals are mounted onto the hand-distressed canvas and put together to create a 3D sculptural wall piece

It could have been part of a depiction of Saint Sebastian

A1 Crystal 18th century Italian gold leaf18th century Italian spolvero fresco pattern printed onto canvas and framed with a custom frame and red phantom quartz crystals. Spolvero is an artistic method of transferring a design from a print to the prepared surface of a canvas, panel, or wall. Holes are punched along the outlines of the original design followed by "pouncing" which is the application of powdered pigments that leaves a series of dots to create the tracing for the piece. This is