Some Baroque painters eventually achieved a bit of revenge by devising illusionistic frescoes that appear to demolish nave vaults and domes to reveal the divine occupants of a sunlit heaven sitting on or floating around clouds.

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It stood majestic in all its golden splendor with wisps of clouds floating across it.

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On a clear day you can see 80 miles and five states and on an overcast one you are floating in the clouds, detached from the world below.

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The day was gray and moist, with low clouds weighing on the rooftops and a thin fog floating below.

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Heretofore, design concepts for free-floating space colonies, says Sherwood, have entailed large hollow toroidal spheres with clouds, yards and pastures.

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First came an indoor ski resort in 2005, then a floating palace hotel in the sea in 2008, and in 2011, a record-breaking stratospheric tower pierced the clouds.

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