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Imaginary View of the Grande Galerie in the Louvre in Ruins Art
Hubert Robert, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Art · France

Imaginary View of the Grande Galerie in the Louvre in Ruins

Hubert Robert1796

The painter of ruins imagines the Louvre roofless and crumbling. A precursor: proof that picturing our own institutions in ruin is centuries older than the bomb.

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Close in spirit