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Architecture

City views, bridges, harbours, villas and quiet rooms in calm light, from Venetian views to Impressionist streets.

Architecture: the collection's first works, side by side
The collection's first works, side by side. On a screen each work shows whole, with its placard.

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Works from Art Institute of Chicago, The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art · public domain (CC0)

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The 24 works

In the order the collection plays them, each with what it shows. Every title links to the work's page at its museum.

  • Piazza San Marco, Venice (opens in a new tab) · Bernardo Bellotto (Italian, 1721–1780) · c. 1740 · oil on canvas · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0A wide view of Piazza San Marco in Venice, with the ornate basilica on the left, the tall brick bell tower and long arcaded buildings under a pale sky.
  • View of Genoa (opens in a new tab) · Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875) · 1834 · Oil on paper, mounted on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0The white houses and domes of Genoa spread down to a deep blue sea, seen from a green hillside with trees.
  • Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect (opens in a new tab) · Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) · 1903 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0Waterloo Bridge in London dissolving into a lilac and blue haze, with glints of sunlight on its arches and the river.
  • Sitges (opens in a new tab) · Juan Roig y Soler (Spanish, 1852–1909) · 19th century · Oil on masonite · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A sunny beach street in Sitges lined with whitewashed houses, with barrels and timber on the sand and a church tower by the sea.
  • Venice (opens in a new tab) · John Singer Sargent (American, Florence 1856–1925 London) · ca. 1903 · Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on white wove paper · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0A loose watercolour of a pale Venetian palace front with arched doors and windows reflected in green canal water.
  • The Bedroom (opens in a new tab) · Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) · 1889 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A small bedroom with blue walls, a wooden bed with a red cover, two yellow chairs, a table and an open green window.
  • The Old Bridge at Mantes (opens in a new tab) · Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863) · c. 1827 · Watercolor on cream wove paper · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A watercolour of an old stone bridge with two arches over a calm river, with poplars and a brick building on the right under a pale sky.
  • View of Braubach (opens in a new tab) · Ernst Damitz (American, born Germany, 1805-1883) · n.d. · Watercolor on ivory wove paper (discolored to tan) · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A watercolour of a Rhine town with a church spire and tiled roofs below green wooded hills, a sailing boat on the calm golden river.
  • The Arcueil Aqueduct at Sceaux Railroad Crossing (opens in a new tab) · Jean-Baptiste-Armand Guillaumin (French, 1841-1927) · 1874 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A long arched stone aqueduct crossing behind a railway cutting with green trees and grass, and people strolling on the left.
  • Capriccio: A Palace with a Courtyard by the Lagoon (opens in a new tab) · Antonio Canaletto (Italian, 1697–1768) · c. 1750–55 · pen and brown ink and brush and gray and black washes over traces of graphite (?); framing lines in pen and brown and black ink · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0A grey ink and wash drawing of an imaginary palace with a grand arched courtyard beside a lagoon, with a ship's masts beyond.
  • Meetinghouse Hill, Roxbury, Massachusetts (opens in a new tab) · John Ritto Penniman (American, c. 1782–1841) · 1799 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A New England village of white wooden houses and a steepled meetinghouse on a green hill under a blue sky with white clouds.
  • Waterloo Bridge, Gray Weather (opens in a new tab) · Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) · 1900 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0Waterloo Bridge in London on a grey day, its arches and the factory chimneys behind softened in blue-green mist.
  • Moorish Buildings on a Cloudy Day (opens in a new tab) · John Singer Sargent (American, Florence 1856–1925 London) · 1879–80 · Oil on wood · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0Whitewashed Moorish buildings with arched green doors above a rough, pale stony foreground, in the soft light of a cloudy day.
  • Boston Common (opens in a new tab) · Artist unknown (American, 19th century) · 1850–63 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0Strollers, families and dogs under tall trees on the sunny paths of Boston Common, with the city's rooftops on the hill beyond.
  • Brooklyn Bridge (opens in a new tab) · Henry Ward Ranger (American, 1858–1916) · 1899 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0The Brooklyn Bridge spanning a turquoise river above red brick rooftops under a golden evening sky.
  • Villa Palatina (opens in a new tab) · Peter Heinrich Lambert von Hess (German, 1792–1871) · 1830 · pen and black ink with faint traces of graphite; framing lines in black ink, with gray wash border · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0A fine ink drawing of a villa with an ornate gateway and potted trees, seen through an arch of leafy vines, with a figure and a small dog in front.
  • Monte Pincio, Rome (opens in a new tab) · Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875) · 1840–50 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A sunlit road on a Roman hilltop leading to a church with two bell towers and an obelisk, with a few figures and a pale sky.
  • Construction Site in Amsterdam (opens in a new tab) · George Hendrik Breitner (Dutch, 1857–1923) · c. 1902 · oil on fabric · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0Workers with wheelbarrows crossing a snowy building site in front of old brick houses and bare trees in Amsterdam.
  • View on the Grounds of a Villa near Florence (opens in a new tab) · Richard Parkes Bonington (British, 1802–1828) · 1826 · Oil on millboard, mounted on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A stone terrace of an Italian villa garden with tall umbrella pines, a large urn and a peacock, in warm golden light.
  • Grey and Silver: Old Battersea Reach (opens in a new tab) · James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903) · 1863 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0Sailing barges and rowing boats on the grey-silver Thames at Battersea, with factory chimneys along the far shore.
  • View of the Proposed Civic Center Plaza and Buildings, The 1909 Plan of Chicago (opens in a new tab) · Daniel Hudson Burnham, American, 1846-1912 (Edward Herbert Bennett, American, born England, 1874-1954, Jules Guerin, delineator, American, 1866-1946) · 1908 · Graphite and watercolor on paper · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A blue and tan architectural rendering of a planned civic centre, with a domed hall at the end of a broad plaza lined with long buildings.
  • Paris Street; Rainy Day (opens in a new tab) · Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894) · 1877 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A wide Paris crossroads on a rainy day, with tall cream buildings, wet cobblestones and people under grey umbrellas.
  • The Imperial Palace on the Palatine, Rome (opens in a new tab) · Paul-Jean Flandrin (French, 1811–1902) · 1834 · Oil on card · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0The weathered brick walls of the ancient palace on Rome's Palatine Hill, overgrown with trees, above a sunny open ground.
  • Point Breeze, the Estate of Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte at Bordentown, New Jersey (opens in a new tab) · Attributed to Charles Lawrence (American, active 1813–1837) · 1817–20 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A country estate at sunset, with a white house and a domed pavilion among trees beyond a lake crossed by a stone bridge.

Credits and review status

Every work is in the public domain under its museum's own CC0 release, resized for screens by Denframe. Each work's title, creator and museum also travel inside the file and show on its placard.

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