Abridge can play many roles inart, such as a work of art in itself in addition to any functional considerations; as a focal point for anovel orfilm; as ametaphor insong orpoetry; as the subject of apainting orphotograph; or as a home for other works of art, such assculptures.

• Thenursery rhyme "London Bridge is falling down"
• William McGonagall's 1880 poem on "The Tay Bridge Disaster"
• Wordsworth's famous sonnet "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802", opening with the famous lines, referring to the view from the bridge,

  Earth has not anything to show more fair:

  Dull would he be of soul who could pass by

  A sight so touching in its majesty.

• Julia A. Moore's poem on theAshtabula Disaster:

  Have you heard of the dreadful fate

  Of Mr. P. P. Bliss and wife?

  Of their death I will relate,

  And also others lost their life;

  Ashtabula Bridge disaster,

  Where so many people died

  Without a thought that destruction

  Would plunge them 'neath the wheel of tide. (1879)

• Bridge (1922)
• The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929, 1944, 2004)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
• Die Brücke ("German – The Bridge", 1959)
• Un pont entre deux rives (The Bridge) (1999)
• A Bridge Too Far (1977)
• The Bridge at Remagen (1969)

• The 1970Simon and Garfunkel song (using the term metaphorically), "Bridge Over Troubled Water".
• The 1967 song "Ode to Billie Joe", which became a hit forBobbie Gentry
• The Divine Comedy's "Painting the Forth Bridge", the title being a colloquial term for an unending task, a reference to theForth Bridge
• The Pogues' "Misty Morning, Albert Bridge":Albert Bridge is a bridge across theThames river
• MC Frontalot's song "Floating Bridge" is literally about different types of bridges.
• Andy Partridge (ofXTC) andHarold Budd – "Tenochtitlan's Numberless Bridges": Tenochtitlan was an Aztec island city with many waterways, canals, and bridges
• Harpers Bizarre – "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)": The bridge of the title, also known as the Queensboro Bridge, links Manhattan with Queens
• T'Pau – "Bridge of Spies": The title refers toGlienicke Bridge in Germany, called the Bridge of Spies because three times during theCold War, released agents were exchanged there.

• Iain Banks' 1986 novelThe Bridge
• Ernest Hemingway's 1940 novelFor Whom the Bell Tolls, concerning the destruction of a bridge byguerrillas during theSpanish Civil War
• Bridges TV cable TV station seeking to "bridge" Middle East and West.
• In Chinese and other East Asianivory carvings the arch of thetusk with the central portion upward suggests naturally a bridge, and often a bridge is a central cultural element when a large sculpture is formed from a single tusk.

• Canaletto – various bridges inLondon andVenice, including theRialto Bridge
• Hiroshige – various bridges inJapan, including several stations on theTōkaidō road
• Hokusai – various bridges in Japan, including the color print seriesViews of Famous Bridges and Views of Lu-chu Islands
• Leonardo da Vinci – bridge in background in theMona Lisa
• Claude Monet –Waterloo Bridge,Westminster Bridge, and in hisWater Lillies paintings
• Camille Pissarro – various bridges inParis, including "lePont Neuf"
• J. M. W. Turner – bridges in Venice,England andScotland, including the famousRain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway.
• Vincent van Gogh – including "le Pont de la Grande Jatte" over theSeine
• James Abbott McNeill Whistler – hisNocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket depictsfireworks over oldBattersea Bridge, London

Bridges are often used as locations for sculptures. Especially popular are animals such as lions, perhaps serving as guardians. Examples are the 485 carved stone lions of theMarco Polo Bridge inChina, which was first constructed in 1192, and the fourCentre Street Bridge lions ofCalgary, which date to 1917.

Another well-known example of a bridge hosting statues is theCharles Bridge inPrague, which is home to 30 statues and statuaries, mostly baroque, dating to around 1700.

An example of a bridge graced with extensive mosaic art is theLarry Monroe Forever Bridge in Austin, Texas.

• Trains in art

• [1] Opanuku Art Bridge

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