St. Peter's Basilica, façade

Carlo Maderno

1607-1615

Rome, Italy (Vatican)

St. Peter's, cupola

Michelangelo Buonarroti

1546-1564

Rome, Italy

St. Peter's Plan

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Villa Rotonda, exterior view

Andrea Palladio

1566-1569

Vicenza, Italy

Villa Rotonda, aerial view

Andrea Palladio

1566-1569

Vicenza, Italy

Villa Rotonda, plan

Andrea Palladio

1550s

Villa Rotonda, interior

Andrea Palladio

1566-1570

Vicenza, Italy

Louvre, east façade

Louis le Vau, Charles le Brun, Claude Perrault

1667-1670

Paris, France

Palace of Versailles, garden view

Jules-Hardouin-Mansart, Louis le Nôtre, Charles le Brun

1669-1685

Versailles, France

Versailles, Plan of Palace and garden

beg. 1669

Versailles, Fountain of Latona

1661-1756

Versailles, France

Et in Arcadia Ego

Nicolas Poussin

Oil on canvas

c. 1650

Massacre of the Innocents

Nicolas Poussin

Oil on Canvas

1628-1630

Winter (The Deluge)

Nicolas Poussin

Oil on canvas

1660-1664

A Pastoral Landscape

Claude Lorrain

Oil on canvas

c. 1650

Wivenhoe Park, Essex, England

John Constable

Oil on canvas

1816

Chiswick House, façade and gate

Lord Burlington

1725

London, England

Chiswick House, plan

Lord Burlington

1725

Chiswick House, View of the Orange Tree Gardens

PA Rysbrack

Oil on canvas

1725

Syon House

Lancelot Brown

1773

near Kew, England

Self-Portrait

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Oil on wood

c. 1780

The Ancient Days, frontspiece to Europe: A Prophesy

William Blake

Hand-colored etching

1784

Newton

William Blake

Ink and watercolor

1795-1805

The White House

James Hoban

1792

Washington, D.C.

Monticello

Thomas Jefferson

1770-1806

Charlottesville, VA

Monticello, plan

Thomas Jefferson

University of Virginia, ext view, rotunda from lawn

Thomas Jefferson

1898

Charlottesville, VA

University of Virginia, plan

U.S. Capitol Building

Dr. William Thornton, Charles Bulfinch, Benjamin Latrobe

beg. 1792 (enlarged 1827-1850)

Washington, D.C.

Napoleon

Antonio Canova

Marble

1803-1806

London, Apsley House

George Washington

Jean-Antoine Houdon

Marble

1785-1788

Virginia State Capital, Richmond, VA

Project for Newton's Cenotaph

Etienne-Louis Boullée

Drawing, ink + wash

1784

British Museum, ext. view

Robert Smirke

1823-1857

London, England

British Museum, Duveen Wing, int. view

1930s

London, England

Lictors Bring Brutus the Bodies of his Sons

Jacques-Louis David

Oil on canvas

1789

The Death of Socrates

Jaques-Louis David

Oil on canvas

1787

Arc de Triompe

Jean-François-Therese Chalgrin

1806-36

Place Charles de Gaulle, Paris, France

The Swimming Hole

Thomas Eakins

Oil on canvas

1883

Mont Sainte-Victoire

Paul Cézanne

Oil on canvas

1902-1904

The Large Bathers

Paul Cézanne

Oil on canvas

1906

The Scream

Edvard Munch

Oil + Pastel, Casein on Cardboard

1893

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Pablo Picasso

Oil on canvas

1907

Guernica

Pablo Picasso

Oil on canvas

1937

Rockefeller Center, ext. view

Raymond Hood

1931-1939

New York

Rockefeller Center, aerial view

Raymond Hood

1931-1939

New York

Rockefeller Center, Plaza with Prometheus Fountain

Paul Manship

Gilded Bronze

1934

New York

Atlas

Lee Lawrie

Bronze Statue

New York, Rockefeller Center

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Horace Trumbauer

1916-1928

Savoye House

Le Corbusier

1929-1930

Passy-sur-Seine, France

Farnsworth House

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

1945-1950

Plano, Illinois

Farnsworth House, plan

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

1945-50

Vanna Venturi House

Robert Venturi

1961-1964

Chestnut Hill, PA

Vanna Venturi House, plan

Robert Venturi

1961-1964

The AT&T Building

Philip Johnson

1980-1984

New York, Sony Plaza

Cenotaph

Edwin Lutyens

1919

Whitehall, London, England

Vietnam Veteran Memorial, det. central section

Maya Ying Lin

Marble

1982

Washington, D.C.

Vietnam Memorial (The Wall)

Maya Ying Lin

1984

Washington, D.C.