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Pages from 'Seven Books on Architecture' by the Italian Renaissance architect Sebastiano Serlio (c. 1475-1554 CE). 1551-1554 CE. (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)

Château d’Ancy-le-Franc in the Yonne department of north-central France. Designed by the Italian Renaissance architect Sebastiano Serlio (c. 1475-1554 CE) in the mid-16th century CE.

Cenotaph of William Brewster (1568-1644 CE), elder of the Leiden congregation of separatists (later known as pilgrims), Mayflower passenger and their spiritual leader of the Plymouth Colony. Burial Hill, Plymouth, MA.

A diagram showing the five classical orders as classified by the Italian Renaissance architect Sebastiano Serlio (c. 1475-1554 CE). Left to right: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite. From Book IV of Serlio's 'Complete Works on...

Official uniforms of the Ottomans, Arif Paşa series. Baş Falakacı (Grand Vizier's Chief Punishment Enforcer), Vezir Baş Tebdili (Chief Entourage Officer to the Grand Vizier during private visits), Kuloğlu Baş Cuhadarı (Chief Municipal Collector...

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 part of a treasure...

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.