Will Espi - Jacksonville, FL

Our next customer is a driven and hardworking Navy shipman named Will Espi. Will has endured a lot of adversity in his life and strives to have his home feel like his sanctuary.

He just made a big move from Maryland to Jacksonville and is looking for a dark emotional feel in two areas of the house: the master bedroom and the game room. Attached is an image of his home and the following pieces we matched to Will's aspiration towards the Dark Renaissance.

Villainous Virtues - The Game Room

One of the first areas of interest that Will wanted to make complete was the game room or as he refers to it as: the man cave. The large space is occupied with a pool table, bar, and other masculine necessities. One message that he wants to be displayed through the piece is the overwhelming feeling and obsession of being successful or in other words - winning. Just like a game, there are things in life we are able to control and not control. There is this constant tug of war between this factuation of winning and the dissatisfaction of losing. With our help at Cedes Secrets, the themes that are present represent emotions that are eluded in dark Renaissance Art and we believe that the best piece for his game room would be Henry Fuseli's The Nightmare.

An Innocents Last Breath- The Master Bedroom

Will believes that his bedroom should be the most important room in the house. When we first walked into the house, the feeling of male dominance and authority were some of those common themes. One of the most famous pieces found in Renaissance Era that surrounds the same dark masculine theme that we are looking for is found in Peter Paul Rubens' piece Massacre of the Innocents. The Massacre of the Innocents eludes the emotion of being loss and found again. When focusing on the origin of time of the painting, it is unknown. The first finished piece was lost for years and then was rediscovered in the 17th century. The painting speaks on emotional trauma and embodies patience being a virtue. Due to the simple complexity of the piece, we believe that this would be the perfect fit for Will's master bedroom.