Painting the Altar for the Pope’s Mass

Two of the Catholic University architecture students who designed the altar to be used by Pope Francis saw the altar in a whole new way today. The altar was moved to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception just over a week ago. Since then, David Donor, an artist who specializes in faux painting, has been applying layers of paint to transform the wooden structure to match the marble already in place at the Basilica.

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