Enormous Wrappings by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Ranked by Size: From Covered Monuments to Mountainside Curtains

Christo has never lacked for artistic ambition, and at the age of 84, he is working as hard as ever on one of his most daring projects yet: L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped (Project for Paris, Place de l’Étoile – Charles de Gaulle), an enormous public artwork he first conceived with his partner and collaborator Jeanne-Claude in 1962. The project—scheduled to be unveiled in September after many years of toil— involves wrapping the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in blue po