Saving A Whole Lotta Painting

Conservators are working to save one of the largest paintings in the world – a 45 feet-by-195 100-year-old religious work in California. “Using 4-foot-long brushes, Polish artist Jan Styka completed the painting in 1897 after working on it 12 hours a day for five years. Styka originally had hoped to show the painting at the St. Louis Exposition of 1904 but there was no room so Styka displayed other works instead.”