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| Anonymous American Photographer Rooftop view of Blimp ca. 1925 gelatin silver print Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Murray Becker Crash of the Hindenburg 1937 gelatin silver print San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Anonymous Dutch Sculptor Figure ca. 1600-1650 wood Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Aaron Siskind Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation 1956 gelatin silver print San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Grete Stern Sueño nro. 35 1949 photomontage Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Charles Marville Industry by Louis Petitot, Pont du Carrousel 1852 salted paper print from paper negative Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Joel Meyerowitz London (Plane and Elephant) 1966 gelatin silver print San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Marc Chagall Les Amants au Ciel Rouge 1950 oil on canvas San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Louis-Michel Eilshemius Afternoon Wind 1899 oil on canvas Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| El Greco Adoration of the Shepherds ca. 1596-97 oil on canvas (bozzetto for altarpiece) Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
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| Fra Angelico Postmortem Appearance of St Francis 1429 tempera on panel (predella fragment) Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Johann Carl Loth The Resurrection before 1698 oil on canvas Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence |
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| Anonymous German Painter Christ in Limbo ca. 1550-75 oil on panel (altarpiece fragment) National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Forrest Bess Seascape with Star before 1977 oil on panel San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Michael Mazur Dante's Inferno - Paolo and Francesca 2000 etching Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Andrea Sacchi Triumph of Divine Wisdom ca. 1629 oil on canvas Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
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| Matteo Rosselli Allegory of Justice ca. 1620-25 ceiling fresco Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence |
To extend our memories of monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our beliefs. We, whose generations are ordained in this setting part of time, are providentially taken off from such imaginations, and, being necessitated to eye the remaining particle of futurity, are naturally constituted unto thoughts of the next world, and cannot excusably decline the consideration of that duration, which maketh pyramids pillars of snow, and all that is past a moment.
– Sir Thomas Browne, from Hydriotaphia, or, Urn Burial (1658)