The essence of a progression toward deeper ingratitude is Bartleby’s characteristic words: “I prefer not to.”

In this installment of “Larger Than Life: Architecture Through the Ages,” we visit a classic American home, now a museum, on the Gulf Coast.

Frederic Leighton’s ‘Captive Andromache’ illustrates a scene from the ‘Iliad’ in which the newly widowed Andromache grieves the death of her husband, Hector.

In this installment of ‘Larger Than Life: Architecture Through the Ages,’ we visit a duke’s ‘pleasure palace.’