Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Built

Sylvia Hahn
Model of the Athenian Acropolis in the 5th century BC
1956
plaster, paper, paint
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto


Todd Hido
#5437
2006
C-print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Antonio Galli-Bibiena
Entrance Façade of a Palace
before 1774
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Franz Hanfstängl
Round Tower, Viktualienmarkt, Munich
1855
albumen print
Stadtmuseum, Munich

Anonymous Italian Painter after Francesco Guardi
Fair in Piazza San Marco, Venice
19th century
oil on paper, mounted on canvas
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Francesco Guardi
View through Arcade, Venice
before 1793
drawing
British Museum

Anonymous Italian Masons
Palace Portal from Cremona
ca. 1475-1500
marble
(purchased and removed to Paris in 1875)
Musée du Louvre

Walter Hege
Parthenon Treasury
ca. 1928-29
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Felice Giani
Temporary Triumphal Arch erected on Ponte Sant'Angelo for Napoleonic Ceremony
1798
oil on canvas
Museo di Roma a Palazzo Braschi

Roger Fry
Le Pont de Saint Goustan, Auray
ca. 1920-30
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Francis Frith
Pyramid at Dahshûr
ca. 1857
albumen silver print from glass negative
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

André Giroux
Santa Trinità dei Monti in the Snow, Rome
ca. 1825-30
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Richard Hough
Bus Queue, Edinburgh
ca. 1975
gelatin silver print
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Claude Lorrain
Tomb of Cecilia Metella outside Rome
1669
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Christo (Christo Javacheff)
Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin
1995
inkjet print mounted on aluminum
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Angelo Inganni
Teatro alla Scala
ca. 1852
oil on canvas
Museo del Teatro alla Scala, Milan

Walter Gropius
Flatiron Building, New York
1928
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

from On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey

Mortality behold, and fear,
What a change of flesh is here!
Think how many royal bones
Sleep within this heap of stones,
Hence removed from beds of ease,
Dainty fare, and what might please,
Fretted roofs, and costly shows,
To a roof that flats the nose:
Which proclaims all flesh is grass;
How the world's fair glories pass;
That there is no trust in health,
In youth, in age, in greatness, wealth;
For if such could have reprieved
Those had been immortal lived.
Know from this the world's a snare,
How that greatness is but care,
How all pleasures are but pain,
And how short they do remain . . .

– attributed to Francis Beaumont (before 1616)