Explore the Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, where famous United States architects, including Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe are buried
Learn about Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, where numerous important architects are buried, including Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.The Scream is one of the most familiar images in modern art.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.The Laughing Cavalier was painted in 1624 by Dutch artist Frans Hals.
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Checkerboard Film Foundation (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Works of Ellsworth Kelly and Jack Shear are shown as Shear walks to Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, Old Chatham, New York, with Jerry Grant of the Shaker Museum, from the documentary Kindred Aesthetics: Mt. Lebanon Shaker Village, Ellsworth Kelly & Jack Shear (2011).
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© Chicago Architecture Foundation (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Learn about the Rookery building (completed 1886) in Chicago, designed by John Wellborn Root and Daniel Burnham, and its distinctive light-filled atrium.
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Checkerboard Film Foundation (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Architect Philip Johnson discussing his Glass House (1949), from the documentary Philip Johnson: Diary of an Eccentric Architect (1996).
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© Chicago Architecture Foundation (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Learn about the Chicago fire of 1871 and the rebuilding of the city, including construction of the Rookery building (1886), designed by Daniel H. Burnham and John Wellborn Root.
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© Massachusetts Institute of Technology (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Watch structures of frozen fabric take form.
