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Architectural Fragment

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Architectural Fragment

Architectural Fragment (1992) is a bluestone sculpture by Dutch-Australian artist Petrus Spronk, installed as if it is buried in the pavement outside the State Library Victoria at the corner of Swanston Street and La Trobe Street in Melbourne, Australia. The sculpture represents a fragment of the li

brary building emerging from the ground as if it were a long-buried archaeological artefact. The sculpture was commissioned for the Swanston Street Walk Public Art Project in 1992 and installed on 12 January 1993. It was partially inspired by the ancient architecture the artist observed when visiting the Greek island of Samos, where the mathematician Pythagoras was born, and by Percy Shelley's poem Ozymandias.

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