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| Johann Christoph Erhard House of Albrecht Dürer in Nuremberg 1816 etching Kunsthalle Bremen |
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| John Sell Cotman View in a Flemish Town before 1842 watercolor on paper National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Eduard Gärtner City Hall at Thorn (West Prussia) 1848 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Gabriel Max The Artist's Home in Ammerland ca. 1880 oil on canvas Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| Ferdinando Ongania Palazzo Rezzonico, Venice 1891 photogravure Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Harold Gilman A Swedish Village 1912 oil on canvas National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Birge Harrison The Red Mill at Cos Cob before 1929 oil on canvas (sold at Bonham's, New York, 2016) private collection |
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| Walker Evans Upstate New York 1931 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Joseph Cornell Rose Castle 1945 assemblage (wood, glass, printed paper, found objects) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| John Piper Bethesda Chapel 1966 lithograph Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Arata Isozaki House for Two Generations, Second Version 1977 screenprint Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Douglas Hill Untitled (Los Angeles) 1979 C-print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Lois Dodd The Yellow House, Lincolnville 1979 oil on linen Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Erik Lauritzen Backlot, France 1985 C-print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Lois Conner St George's Hotel, Brooklyn, New York 1991 platinum print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Gabriel Orozco House and Rain 1998 C-print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Todd Hido #3533 2005 inkjet print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
Pindar on the Eclipse of the Sun
All-enlight'ning, all beholding,
All-transcending star of day!
Why, thy sacred orb enfolding,
Why does darkness veil thy ray?
On thy life-diffusing splendor
These portentous shades that rise,
Vain the strength of mortals render,
Vain, the labors of the wise.
Late thy wheels, through ether burning,
Roll'd in unexampled light:
Mortals mourn thy change, returning
In the sable garb of night.
Hear, oh Phoebus! we implore thee,
By Olympian Jove divine;
Phoebus! Thebans kneel before thee,
Still on Thebes propitious shine.
On thy darken'd course attending,
Dost thou signs of sorrow bring?
Shall the Summer rains, descending,
Blast the promise of the Spring?
Or shall War, in evil season,
Spread unbounded ruin round?
Or the baleful hand of Treason
Our domestic joys confound?
By the bursting torrent's power,
Shall our rip'ning fields be lost?
Shall the air with snow-storms lower,
Or the soil be bound in frost?
Or shall ocean's waves stupendous,
Unresisted, unconfin'd,
Once again, with roar tremendous,
Hurl destruction on mankind?
– Pindar (518-446 BC), translated by Thomas Love Peacock (1806)