The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

[00:00:01]A sky crowded with bodies.

[00:00:03]Nobody is falling.

[00:00:05]Gravity doesn't exist here.

[00:00:08]Look at the bottom left.

[00:00:10]Muscular figures heave a massive grey pillar upward.

[00:00:14]At the center, a woman sits in white silk.

[00:00:19]A lion crouches beside her.

[00:00:22]This isn't a myth.

[00:00:24]It's a deed of empire.

[00:00:26]Tiepolo painted this for Charles III.

[00:00:29]Third.

[00:00:30]The pillars represent the edge of the world claimed [music] by Spain.

[00:00:36]The gods aren't inviting them up.

[00:00:39]They're yielding the sky.