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Gold ornament showing an eagle with its prey, c. 1st- or 2nd-century CE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. It is one of a pair, with the other on display in the British Museum, London. Ernst Herzfeld proposed that it was...

Pair of gold earrings with garnets. Parthian, 2nd century CE. Kouyunjik, Iraq.

Gold foil face-mask; hammered sheet with four perforated holes, one at each corner, for attachment. 2nd century CE, Kouyunjik, Iraq

The Santa Maria Novella church in Florence. The facade was designed by the Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472 CE). 1458-70 CE.

Parthian silver coin, showing Gotarzes I on the obverse and a seated archer on a throne on the reverse, from Ecbatana, modern-day Iran, 95-90 BCE. The British Museum, London.

The Palazzo Rucellai, Florence. It was designed by the Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472 CE). Mid-15th century CE.

The facade of the Tempio Malatestiano church in Rimini. It was designed by the Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472 CE). Mid-15th century CE. Its design is influenced by the triumphal arch of ancient Rome.

The facade of the Basilica of S. Andrea in Mantua, Italy. Designed c. 1470 CE by the Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472 CE).

The colonnades of the canonica in Sant'Ambrogio Basilica, Milan. Designed by the Renaissance architect Donato Bramante (c. 1444-1514 CE) in the 1490s CE.

Modern bust of Roman poet Catullus (87-54 BCE). Sirmione, Lake Garda, Italy.