A short YouTube monologue describing an interior wall composed entirely of shells and stones at the Residenz. The speaker highlights the intricate, painstaking craftsmanship and notes that artisan quality was high in the 14th–16th centuries but declined by the 18th century; contemporary standards are described as different.
So we're inside right now, and it's amazing. And this here is a whole wall of shells. It doesn't look like shells, but it is. Look at this. Every single thing is some type of stone or shell here. And you can see the woman over there and her crown. Every single part of it here. We'll go over here. It's un. This is all shelves in here. Look at this door. It's incredible. Talk about painstaking work. One of the things they did say inside was that in the 14th and 15th and 16th centuries, there was a certain level of quality of artisan, and it started going down in the 18th century. And of course, today we have a whole other idea of what type of work would be.
