# Exterior view [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ANTONELLI, Alessandro]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary The Mole Antonelliana is a major landmark building in Turin, Italy, named after its architect, Alessandro Antonelli. A mole in Italian is a building of monumental proportions. Construction began in 1863, soon after Italian unification, and was completed in 1889, after the architect's death. Originally conceived as a synagogue, it now houses the Museo Nazionale del Cinema, and is the tallest unreinforced brick building in the world \(built without a steel girder skeleton\). ## Related artworks - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [General view]() - [Interior view]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()