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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by BeamBrain@hexbear.net to c/art@hexbear.net

Nothing quite like the simultaneous awe and dread of looking at a construction so gargantuan that you feel like an ant on the floor of a cathedral

Pic is by Étienne-Louis Boullée. Also if you're into this kind of stuff, check out the work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Also have a look at the short film The Centrifuge Brain Project.

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[-] Tervell@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

a few by John Martin:

Belshazzar's Feast, c. 1821

John Martin, Pandemonium, 1841

Satan Presiding at the Infernal Council, c. 1823–1827

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ooh, I've seen these before, and I love them. Pre-modern ones hit especially hard for me, probably because the less advanced construction techniques make their impossibility stand out even more.

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