It's all in the Details

Featured below are closeups of detail work found in Cathedrals and doors in Spain. I am always in awe of the time and talent it must have taken to complete these works of art and architecture. The sarcastic part of me thinks "well this is an example of what can be done when there was no television or internet". And these works have lasted for a couple HUNDRED years. I wonder if the artistians/architects of today plan for their work to last until 2211!?