Sunday, March 29, 2026

Built

Fabio Borbottoni
View of Piazza della Fonte in the Ghetto, Florence
ca. 1885-95
oil on panel
Foundation Cassa di Risparmio, Florence


Giovanni Battista Altadonna
Interno del Colosseo
ca. 1850-60
albumen silver print from glass negative
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jacques Caillot
Fire in a Monastery
ca. 1693
oil on canvas
Palazzo Corsini, Rome

David Anderson
Federal Reserve Bank
1981
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York

Ethelyn Pratt Cobb
Santander Spain after Palm Sunday
ca. 1910
oil on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Luigi Bisi
Duomo di Milano
ca. 1830-35
oil on canvas
Gallerie d'Italia, Milan

Edmond Bacot
Rouen Cathedral
ca. 1852-53
salted paper print from glass negative
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Canaletto
The Loggetta, Piazza San Marco
ca. 1730-40
oil on canvas
(top of canvas was lopped off at an early date) 
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, West Midlands

John Brown
Cottage in  which Turner the
landscape painter died in Chelsea

ca. 1857
ink and wash on paper
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York

Alvin Langdon Coburn
The Curiosity Shop
1907
photogravure
(commissioned by Henry James
to illustrate The Golden Bowl)
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Claude Lorrain
Pyramid of Caius Cestius, Rome
ca. 1630
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Édouard Baldus
Tour Magne, Nîmes
1853
albumen print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York

Harry Callahan
Morocco
1981
dye imbibition print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

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

Alfred Louis Brunet-Debaines
King's Parade, Cambridge
1882
etching
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

Lewis Baltz
Laguna Beach
1969
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Warrington Colescott
Madison from the Air no. 2
1951
oil on panel
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

A Bridge on the Sangarios

With tall-necked Hesperia and the Medes,
With all the nomad armies of the barbarians,
You also, Sangarios, wear Justinian's chains.
Once unconquerable and free of traffic,
Now you lie bound with a collar of stone. 

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Guy Davenport