Classical forms
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Saint Mark's and the Clock Tower, Venice 1735-1737
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Play of light and shadow in the Grand Central Terminal, Midtown Manhattan, New York City. 1913
The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is Italy's oldest active shopping gallery and one of the first passages in Europe, built in 1865-1877.
The sheer scale of the Galleria is impressive and can be gauged by the shoppers in the foreground.

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Jonh William Godward
Classical form and refined marble wall in the background
Andrea Palladio
Villa Capra "La Rotonda"
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Rome.The Porta Maggiore and the tomb of Eurysaces

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Henryk Siemiradzki
The new bracelet, 1883
The shadows of the Royal Chapel
photo by Christian Milet
Tribuna, Palazzo Grimani
Giovanni Grimani (1506-1593) was a passionate and knowledgeable collector, influenced by the great interest in the arts that his family always had. His most valuable sculptures were exhibited in the extraordinary hall conceived for this purpose known as the "Chamber of Antiquities" or the Tribuna. Originally housing more than 130 ancient sculptures, the Tribuna was the room where Patriarch Giovanni received his illustrious guests. Presumably, the work was led by Michele Sanmicheli.
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3D reconstruction of Hadrian's Villa. The imperial villa at Tivoli near Rome, from where Emperor Hadrian ruled the Roman Empire in the twilight of his life. 118—134 AD

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
"S. Giovanni in Laterano. Interior" 1768

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"Beyond Time and Space" (2022)

Created by AI software "Midjourney". It is a form of artificial intelligence and application that produces images in response to a text input. The user prompts a text description, and the network answers with a few possible imaginations, that can be progressively refined. I've experimented with it by asking it to produce paintings that included antiquity architecture, space, and future civilization.