Built

Roelant Savery
Tower of Babel
1602
oil on copper
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

Thomas Ruff
jpeg ny02
2004
C-print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Nicholas Nixon
View east from Pi Alley, Boston
2008
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anastasia Samoylova
Upside-Down House, Orlando
2020
inkjet print
private collection

Georgia O'Keeffe
Wall with Green Door
1953
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Aldobrando Piacenza
St Peter's
before 1976
oil on panel
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

Larry Schwarm
Elevator - Barber County, Kansas
1974
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Willem Schellinks
Stonehenge
1662
drawing
British Museum

John Singer Sargent
Villa Borghese - Temple of Diana
ca. 1906-1907
watercolor on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Isidore Pils
Basilica di Santa Francesca Romana in the Roman Forum
1840
watercolor on paper
British Museum

Joe Rock
The James McLurg monument (1717)
Greyfriars' Churchyard, Edinburgh
1990
gelatin silver print
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Thomas Sandby
Whitehall Palace
(Holbein Gate at center, Banqueting House at right)
ca. 1750
watercolor on paper
British Museum

Hubert Robert
Roman Capriccio with the Pantheon and an Embarcadero
ca. 1758-60
oil on canvas
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome
ca. 1773-78
etching
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

John Ruskin
The Baptistry, Florence
1872
watercolor and gouache on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Alexander Runciman
Tower on the Leonine Wall in the Vatican Gardens
ca. 1767-71
ink, chalk, watercolor and gouache on paper
British Museum

Jean-Baptiste Roman
La Chasse et la Pêche
1826
stone relief on window surround
Musée du Louvre

The Shrouding of the Duchess of Malfi

Hark! now everything is still, 

The screech-owl and the whistler shrill,

Call upon our dame aloud,

And bid her quickly don her shroud!

Much you had of land and rent;

Your length in clay's now competent:

A long war disturbed your mind;

Here your perfect peace is signed.

Of what is't fools make such vain keeping?

Sin their conception, their birth weeping,

Their life a general mist of error,

Their death a hideous storm of terror. 

Strew your hair with powders sweet,

Don clean linen, bathe your feet,

And – the foul fiend more to check –

A crucifix let bless your neck:

'Tis now full tide 'tween night and day,

End your groan and come away.

– John Webster, from The Duchess of Malfi (ca. 1613)