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David (Michelangelo)

  • Name of Work: David

  • Name of Designer: Michelangelo Buonarroti

  • Style, Period, Movement: High Renaissance

  • Location, Country: Florence, Italy

  • Date Range: 1501–1504

2) David (Bernini)

  • Name of Work: David

  • Name of Designer: Gian Lorenzo Bernini

  • Style, Period, Movement: Baroque

  • Location, Country: Rome, Italy (Galleria Borghese)

  • Date Range: 1623–1624

3) Cathedral of Notre Dame (Paris)

  • Name of Work: Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris

  • Name of Designer: Various architects (including Jean de Chelles, Pierre de Montreuil)

  • Style, Period, Movement: Gothic

  • Location, Country: Paris, France

  • Date Range: Begun 1163, largely completed by 1345

4) Laurentian Library

  • Name of Work: Laurentian Library (Biblioteca Laurenziana)

  • Name of Designer: Michelangelo Buonarroti

  • Style, Period, Movement: Mannerist / Late Renaissance

  • Location, Country: Florence, Italy

  • Date Range: Designed 1524, constructed through mid-1500s

5) Villa Rotonda

  • Name of Work: Villa Almerico Capra “La Rotonda”

  • Name of Designer: Andrea Palladio

  • Style, Period, Movement: High Renaissance

  • Location, Country: Vicenza, Italy

  • Date Range: 1566–1571

6) Banqueting House at Whitehall

  • Name of Work: Banqueting House, Whitehall Palace

  • Name of Designer: Inigo Jones

  • Style, Period, Movement: English Renaissance / Palladian / Early Baroque

  • Location, Country: London, England

  • Date Range: 1619–1622

7) Piazza of St. Peter’s

  • Name of Work: Piazza San Pietro (St. Peter’s Square)

  • Name of Designer: Gian Lorenzo Bernini

  • Style, Period, Movement: Baroque

  • Location, Country: Vatican City, Rome, Italy

  • Date Range: 1656–1667

8) The Varengeville Room

  • Name of Work: Varengeville Room

  • Name of Designer: Designed by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (interior decor often attributed to Rococo designers)

  • Style, Period, Movement: Rococo

  • Location, Country: France

  • Date Range: Mid-18th century (c. 1730–1760)

9) Pantheon

  • Name of Work: Pantheon

  • Name of Designer: Originally commissioned by Marcus Agrippa, rebuilt under Emperor Hadrian

  • Style, Period, Movement: Ancient Roman / Classical

  • Location, Country: Rome, Italy

  • Date Range: c. 118–125 CE

10) Acropolis and Parthenon

  • Name of Work: Parthenon (on the Acropolis)

  • Name of Designer: Ictinus and Callicrates (sculptural direction by Phidias)

  • Style, Period, Movement: Classical Greek

  • Location, Country: Athens, Greece

  • Date Range: 447–432 BCE

11) Hagia Sophia

  • Name of Work: Hagia Sophia

  • Name of Designer: Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus

  • Style, Period, Movement: Byzantine

  • Location, Country: Istanbul (formerly Constantinople), Turkey

  • Date Range: 532–537 CE

12) Shokin-Tei Pavilion, Rooms of Hearth and Spear, Katsura Detached Palace

  • Name of Work: Shokin-tei Pavilion, Katsura Imperial Villa

  • Name of Designer: Attributed to Prince Toshihito and Kobori Enshu (architect and tea master)

  • Style, Period, Movement: Japanese Edo Period / Sukiya Style (Tea House Aesthetic)

  • Location, Country: Kyoto, Japan

  • Date Range: Early–Mid 17th century

13) Old Basilica of St. Peter’s

  • Name of Work: Old St. Peter’s Basilica

  • Name of Designer: Commissioned by Emperor Constantine I

  • Style, Period, Movement: Early Christian / Early Medieval

  • Location, Country: Rome, Italy

  • Date Range: Begun c. 318 CE, completed c. 333 CE