Learn how the Marquette Building became a national historic landmark after it was saved from demolition through protests and other lobbying efforts
How postwar demolition of Chicago's architectural legacy galvanized the historical preservation movement that saved the Marquette Building (Holabird & Roche, 1895).
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Eugène Delacroix painted The Death of Sardanapalus in 1826 or 1827, inspired by Lord Byron's play Sardanapalus.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus is one of the most famous paintings in the world.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.The Scream is one of the most familiar images in modern art.
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Written and photographed by Victoria S. Lautman; Produced and edited by Matthew Cunningham (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Stepwells are spectacular subterranean edifices “like skyscrapers sunk into the earth,” explains Victoria Lautman in the video Subterranean Ghosts: India's Disappearing Stepwells (2013), produced and edited by Matthew Cunningham.
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© Chicago Architecture Foundation (A Britannica Publishing Partner)An overview of the architectural details of the Marquette Building, Chicago; it was designed by William Holabird and Martin Roche.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Tobias Arhelger/Dreamstime.com; © Iurii Kosintcev/Dreamstime.comA visit to the wire-drawing (or wire-pulling) museum in Altena, Germany.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, MainzA discussion of homes built in waterways of the Netherlands.
