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Monumental bust of the goddess Isis-Sothis-Demeter, from the Palestra at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy), 131-138 CE. Now in the Vatican Museums, Rome.

The Hospitalia at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy) was a two-story building with 10 guest rooms on the first floor off a long and wide central hallway, at the southern end of which was a hall. The structure dates to the first phase (118-125...

The Small Baths at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy) is a thermal complex built between 121-125 CE.

View of one of the gardens of the Three Exedras building at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy). The building was a semicircular arcaded triclinium (dining room) with a large, rectangular fountain located to the north of the structure at the...

The Stadium Garden at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy) was an elaborate garden of artistic and aesthetic retreat - effectively, a statue gallery.

One of the most striking and best preserved parts of Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli (Italy) consists of a pool named Canopus and the so-called Serapeum, a monumental summer cenatio with a nymphaeum set at the southern end of the Canopus.

The Maritime Theatre at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy) was a complex with 35 room built on a circular island surrounded by a moat. It is generally thought to have been dedicated to Hadrian’s personal use.

The Piazza d’Oro (Golden Hall) is a vast building with a quadriporticus garden and water basins located in the northern edge of Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy). The southern side of Piazza d’Oro has a cenatio (dining-room) and perhaps also...

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (l. 1510-1554), Plaza Mayor, Salamanca, Spain.

Antonio de Mendoza (l. 1495-1552), viceroy of New Spain, oil on canvas painting by an unknown artist. Salón de Virreyes, National Museum of History, Mexico City.