John Martin’s oil painting, acquired by Tate Gallery London in 1869, imagines the extent of the disaster that famously beset the sister cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum when the volcano Mount Vesuvius erupted on 24 August AD 79.The painting was first exhibited in...
Eko Atlantic, officially Nigeria International Commerce city, also known as Eko Atlantic City, or the initials E.A.C. and E.A., is a planned city of Lagos State, Nigeria, being constructed on land reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean. Upon completion, the new peninsula...
All images from the movie Global Meltdown from 2017 Canada; 21. Century; Christian; film
Sea Wall in North-Jakarta, Indonesia Sea Wall in Gedong Pompa, Jakarta, Indonesia Sea Wall in Kesennuma, Japan Flood Wall in New Orleans, USA Sea Wall Shanghai, China Saemangeum Seawall South Korea
Off the coast of the small japanese island Yonaguni lies a rock formation that has striking ressemblances to remains of submerged cities elsewhere. It was discovered in 1986. But no source from history has so far proven the existence of a city in this location and it...
Famous german novel "The Rider on a white Horse (Schimmelreiter)" by Theodor Storm draws on a superstition and theme that appears in numerous folk tales from the region of the North and Baltic Sea: In order to build a durable and reliable dyke, a living being has to...
The All Saints' Flood (Dutch: Allerheiligenvloed) of 1570 was a disaster which happened on November 1, on the Dutch and German coast. Affected cities include Egmond, Bergen op Zoom and Saeftinghe. The print by Hans Moser depicts the Scheldt river overflowing....
The Mosul Dam is used to regulate the water supply in the draught prone regions of Irak. If there is a shortage of water, the water line in the dam resservoire is lowered which has repeatedly brought archeological findings to light. In 2010 a palace appeared above the...
Probably not the first motion picture about a flooded city, but certainly the most influential one. In the 1927 movie the city is a completely fictious science fiction vesion of a city. It is thus more comparable to the new towns that are currently being planned to...
In this image from the disaster movie "2012" (200) the visual style is clearly remeniscent of Rennaissance and medieval paintings. This shot in particular reminds me of depictions of Golgatha. USA; 21. Century; Christian; Film; Art History;
