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A drawing of the now much-altered Palazzo Caprini in Rome designed by Donato Bramante (c. 1444-1514 CE). The design was influential on other Renaissance palaces. The building was lived in by Raphael (1483-1520 CE) from 1517 CE and so became...

The Stoa of Attalos in Athens was built by Attalos II of Pergamon (r. 159-138 BCE) and stands reconstructed in the Agora today.

A drawing of the early construction phase of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome by Martin van Heemskerck. From the north side, 1532-6 CE. The drawing shows the piers and arches which were designed by the project's first architect Donato Bramante...

The cloister of the Santa Maria della Pace church in Rome. It was designed by Donato Bramante (c. 1444-1514 CE) c. 1500 CE.

The Tempietto of San Pietro, Montorio, Rome. Designed by Donato Bramante (c. 1444-1514 CE) and completed c. 1510 CE.

Monument honoring Myles Standish (c. 1584-1656 CE), military advisor to the Plymouth Colony, completed in 1898 CE. Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts

A painting of Saint Jerome in his study by Antonello da Messina, c. 1475 CE. (National Gallery, London)

Red-figure calyx-krater (mixing jar), c. 460-450 BCE, painted in Attica, Greece, and found in Altamura, Italy, attributed to The Niobid Painter. The Pandora Vase is named after the top frieze of side A, which shows the creation of Pandora...

Plaque commemorating John Robinson, the pastor of the Leiden congregation of Puritan separatists. Pieterskerk, Leiden, the Netherlands.

A wall painting from the Etruscan Tomb of the Augurs at Tarquinia. The scene depicts the figure Phersu, a masked man from multiple Etruscan myths. He leads a "game" in which a man is sent against a dog with a club and a fabric wrapped around...