Times change, jobs change, and technologies change... but some things never change.
A wonderful and witty snapshot of ordinary life in the Netherlands as it was 400 years ago.
3. Summer Evening at Skagen by P.S. Krøyer (1892)
The perfect blue solitude of a summer evening by the sea — you can almost hear the waves lapping on the shore, almost sense the light reflecting on your face.
We see the artist's wife and dog; his affection for them is clear.
He's one of the most beloved architects in the world, and that makes sense — his style is utterly unique.
But Gaudí only designed 17 buildings...
Antoni Gaudí was born in Catalunya on the 25th June 1852.
He spent eight years training as an architect, and although involved in some projects at university, his first solo commission was designing... lamp posts.
For the Plaça Reial in Barcelona, in 1879:
Thus began the career of one of history's greatest architects.
After designing some furniture, church interiors, and a pharmacy, in 1880 he was asked by Manuel Vicens to design a house.
It was completed a few years later — nothing quite like this had been seen before.
But it isn't unusual, because fake ruins are a whole subgenre of architecture — and there are hundreds of them around the world...
These "Roman ruins" were designed by an architect called Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg under Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II.
They were built in 1778 at Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, and decorated to look authentic by a team of sculptors.
Their inspiration was the Arch of Titus and the Temple of Titus & Vespasian in Rome — engravings of both had recently been published by Giambattista Piranesi.