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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2079522, member: 56859&quot;]Apparently some did farm out the background work.&nbsp; For instance, this painting of emperor Theodosius (Art Institute of Chicago):</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/theodosiuspainting-jpg.351901/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Alessandro Magnasco</b></p><p>Italian, 1667-1749</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Theodosius Repulsed from the Church by Saint Ambrose</i></p><p>1700/10</p><p>Oil on canvas</p><p><br /></p><p>From the plaque:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;In 390 Ambrose, the archbishop of Milan, refused to give communion to Emperor Theodosius (r. 379-95) until he made public penance for the massacre of thousands of innocents after an insurrection. Theodosius, the last emperor to command the entire Roman state, eventually submitted to the archbishop&#039;s greater moral authority. This painting typifies Alessandro Magnasco&#039;s fluid, highly charged mature manner. In keeping with the artistic traditions of his native Genoa, Magnasco dissolved the figures into ghostly forms. <b>For the elaborate background edifice, which is intended to represent the atrium of an early Christian church, he employed an unidentified architectural painting specialist.</b>&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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