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Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore, aka Brunelleschi's dome, was the largest dome in the world after the fall of the Roman Empire and is still considered the largest ever made in masonry. Conceived, designed, and built by Filippo Brunelleschi, who initiated the Florentine Renaissance...
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Capitals of the Salle du Manege. Louvre Museum, Paris. The Manege room in the Louvre is a large space built under Napoleon III for equestrian events. After the fall of the Second Empire, the room was granted to the museum. In 1928 the Salle became the entrance to the museum...
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The Arch of Ctesiphon in modern-day Iraq is the only remaining structure of ancient Ctesiphon, built in 242–272 AD during the Sassanid Empire. Considered a landmark in architecture history, the Persian masterpiece was on the brink of collapse in 2021 when Iran intervened to restore it.
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Cisterna Basilica, the largest of hundreds of cisterns beneath Constantinople, the capital city of the Roman Empire from 330 CE until its fall in 1453. The cistern, 500 ft SW from Hagia Sophia, was built in the 6th century during the reign of Emperor I, who also built the cathedral…
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The King's College Chapel, at the University of Cambridge, is considered one of the finest examples of late Perpendicular Gothic English architecture and features the world's largest fan vault. The Chapel was built in phases by a succession of kings of England from 1446 to 1515 CE
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Amphitheater, Roman city of Augusta Emerita, Merida, Spain. Constructed in 8 BC to complement the theater built next to it some 7 years earlier. This fighting ground was used until the fall of the Empire in the 4th century and ended partially underground. It was uncovered in 1912...
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The 4th century CE Villa Romana del Casale in Sicily, is renowned for holding one of the world's largest and finest collection of in-situ Roman mosaics, covering over 3500 m². Preserved by a 12th-cent. mudslide, the villa complex sat on 22 acres, roughly equivalent to 17 football fields
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The Hoxne Hoard, the largest hoard of late Roman silver and gold discovered in Britain, was accidentally found by a man when he set out with a metal detector to find a hammer he had lost in a farm. The British government rewarded him with £1.75 million. He found his hammer afterwards
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Bust of Antonio Manuel ne Vunda, Ambassador from the Kingdom of Kongo to the Vatican. Ne Vunda arrived in Rome on 3 January 1608, but he died two days later of illness. The bust was sculpted by Francesco Caporale for the ambassador's tomb in the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore.
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Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, Rome, 176 AD. One of the greatest surviving works of Roman imperial art, it is the only large bronze imperial equestrian statue to survive, largely because M. A. was confused with Christian emperor Constantine and escaped being melted down...
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