Romans must have had a lot of spare gold, because i'm not sure if this is sculpted from gold or painted in gold, but either way they've used a lot of gold. This is a close up of one of the hand carved gold panels on a huge door to a cathedral. Sculptors worked for decades on a single piece of work like a statue or a door and the articulate masterpieces and a testament to their dedication and talent. Once again it's hard to gain a perspective of the size, but overall the door was probably 7-10m high and 4-5m high and this panel was about a 30cm square. So the carvings are quite small and the detail is amazing.
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