Vatican

The papal throne (cathedra), in the apse of Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, symbolises the Holy See.

Tate Britain, London, UK

Vatican

The Sistine Chapel, Vatican City

Alnwick Castle, Northumberland

Italy

The Temple of Hercules Victor, Rome, built in the mid-2nd century BC, most likely by Lucius Mummius Achaicus, who won the Achaean War.

Bulgaria

Model of the 1st century Philippopolis (Plovdiv) in the Roman period created by arch. Matey Mateev

Italy

The Baths of Diocletian, Rome

Greece

The Archaic Gorgon of the western pediment from the Artemis Temple of Corfu, Archaeological Museum of Corfu

Greece

Capital of the Corinthian Order showing foliate decoration and vertical volutes.

Greece

The Parthenon, shows the common structural features of Ancient Greek architecture: crepidoma, columns, entablature, pediment.

Greece

The Kritios Boy, (c.480 BC), typifies the tradition of free-standing figures

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Egypt

Model of Meketra's house and garden from his tomb at Thebes, which consists of a shady grove of trees surrounding a central pool; circa 1981-1975 BC; painted wood & cooper; height: 39.5 cm (15​⁹⁄₁₆ in.); Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)

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Architecture

Fragment of a columns with a Hathor capital; 380-362 BC; limestone; height: 102 cm (40​³⁄₁₆ in.); Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Architecture

An Assyrian lamassu, Bas-relief c. 713–716 BC

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Architecture

Energy-plus-houses at Freiburg-Vauban in Germany

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Architecture

Plate from Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Brittanicus.

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Architecture

Cliff Palace of Mesa Verde, in Colorado, United States, created by the Ancestral Puebloans.

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Architecture

Ottoman architecture: Blue Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey

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Architecture

Temple of Concordia in Agrigento, Sicily.

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Architecture

The Sage, Gateshead by Norman Foster: the trend towards organic shapes in contemporary architecture.

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