The large amount of money paid for the alter.
The significance of the date.
Deep blue. Aquamarine. Gold and red.
A sea of gold haloes. Filmic narrative.
"Perhaps some of the treasure of the Templars
was spent on La Maestà."

"If so, it was a magnificent memorial,"
he replied.

[ Paths of Memory and Painting]
[when the foreground meets the background]