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I love artistic depictions of impossibly vast, all-encompassing architecture and am requesting you share any you may have (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by BeamBrain@hexbear.net to c/art@hexbear.net

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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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[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.