Whenever James saw a photo of the Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne in Rome it reminded him of a skull. It’s hard to think anyone seeing the photos wouldn’t see this also.

Fitting along these lines is the fact that the chapel also serves as Charlemagne’s crypt, and that he is credited with rescuing the Roman Catholic Empire from the brink of collapse around the year 800 AD and returning it to prominence as the temporal and spiritual power of its time.

The umbrella of ecumenical Rome serves as a master idiom for the brotherhood of all false religions standing in opposition to the true God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob: the Jewish Christ. From the time of Nimrod’s global rule in Genesis, enthroned in the second story alcove surrounded by a representative gathering of its natural children, to the crest of the skull’s forehead baring elements of the earth’s final kingdom mystically represented by the All Seeing Eye embedded in a Big Brother Motherboard. So now at the end we return to the beginning ;  Nimrod’s one World Empire is once again attempted through Ecumenical oneness, “inclusiveness” and mysticism.

Oil on Linen

48”x 63”

The original’s frame is hand crafted to look like a Roman doorway with a carved skeleton in the vaulted capital and stands 9’6” from base to crest.

Original’s status: Available

Giclee on canvass

22.5”x 30.5”          Price $950

42.%”x 56.5”         Price $2,250

S/N editions of 50

Detail, Nimrod’s vault

Detail, Dali’s EXPLODING HEAD OF MARY

Detail, Michelangelo’s PIETA , Mary offering the “real” body of Christ where is inscribed,  “Murder in the Mass” with Picasso’s works mourning.

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