Weathered Elegance — 2 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Venice grew from lagoon settlements into a maritime republic whose Gothic and Renaissance palazzi still define the city's silhouette above its canals. The abstract treatment here references that masonry vocabulary — arches, loggias, and waterfront reflections — without naming a single campo, a pragmatic choice when the art is mood-first rather than landmark-checklist tourism. Rome — the Eternal City — layers two millennia of public architecture into a single skyline vocabulary: the Colosseum, completed under the Flavian emperors, and the Pantheon, whose pediment still carries Agrippa's dedicatory inscription. The geometric treatment here references that masonry heritage — amphitheatre tiers, classical columns, cobbled centro storico — without naming a single piazza, a pragmatic choice when the art is mood-first rather than map-precise tourism.