Early Modern (c. 1400 – 1800)
Renaissance Florence rediscovered the rules of Rome; Baroque Rome bent them into theatre. Beyond Europe it was the age of great empires: Ottoman sultans built Topkapı and Sinan’s mosques, Mughal emperors raised marble tombs, the Inca fitted the giant stones of Sacsayhuaman, and in Lhasa the Potala climbed its mountain. Architecture became an instrument of power — palaces meant to humble ambassadors, capitals planned on paper before they rose in stone.
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