Banners were used throughout the original exhibition space to provide visual cues as to where the particular theme sections were divided. Each banner was illustrated with an image from the GRI collections. The banners were translucent, allowing the viewer to see through them, evoking the ephemeral nature of ruins.

Anonymous
View of the Athenian Acropolis from Philopappos Hill
Albumen print, ca. 1865
92.R.84

Louis-François Cassas
Keystone of Temple of Bacchus, Baalbek, Lebanon
Engraving, intended for Voyage pittoresque de la Syrie, del la Phénicie, de la Palestine, et de la Basse Egypte, 1799
840011*

Constantin Athanassiou
Greek
Monument of Philopappos, Athens
Albumen print, ca. 1875
92.R.84

Anonymous
Einstein in the ruins of a village in the region of Dormans (France)
From Charles Nordmann, "Avec Einstein dans le régions dévastées," L'illustration, no. 4128 (15 April 1922): 329
84-S259