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“The Basilica of Crawling Light”(Jean de Mauchet’s Ergot Fever Mural, 1891 — scrubbed off a monastery wall after three days)LocationPainted on the entire east wall of the Abbey of Saint-Bel-Averse, using stolen pigments, crushed hallucinogenic mushrooms, and (allegedly) a mixture of:egg temperalampblackdiluted communion wineand something called “red sap of the night-bark,” which no botanist has ever formally identifiedIt was finished in a single 18-hour hallucination while Mauchet was “sweating out the visions of the crooked sun.”
A surreal scene features a giant, skeletal figure with spindly limbs looming over a small child holding two sticks. A large, whimsical sun and ethereal patterns fill the sky, creating an eerie atmosphere.