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.

  • Tervell [he/him]
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    2 days ago

    a few by John Martin:

    Belshazzar's Feast, c. 1821

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    John Martin, Pandemonium, 1841

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

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    • BeamBrain [he/him]
      hexagon
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      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.