Monday, November 2· 7pm
ONLINE TALK · THE GREATEST TOMBS NEVER BUILT: VISIONARY FUNERARY ARCHITECTURE THAT HAUNTS THE IMAGINATION
$8.00
On November 2 with art historian Brenda Edgar, this lecture explores visionary funerary projects from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when architects pushed monumentality to its extreme. We will examine Étienne-Louis Boullée’s spherical cenotaphs, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux’s architecture of death, and Thomas
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Willson’s Great Pyramid of Death for London. These designs reveal how architects used death to contemplate eternity, memory, decay, and the limits of civilization.