Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral

Architecture · 1573–1813 · Mexico City · Americas

Largest cathedral in the Americas, built over 240 years; its Altar of the Kings epitomises Churrigueresque

Style: Latin American Baroque — Iberian Baroque reworked by Indigenous and mestizo craftsmen into dense, gilded church fronts
Century: 16th century

Made around the same time (±30 years)

1555–1561 Saint Basil's Cathedral — Barma and Postnik · Tented Churches · Moscow, Red Square
c. 1600 Hamlet — William Shakespeare · London
c. 1574 Ramcharitmanas — Tulsidas · Ayodhya
c. 1571–1585 Fatehpur Sikri · Mughal Art · Fatehpur Sikri
1568–1575 Selimiye Mosque — Mimar Sinan · Classical Ottoman Architecture (Sinan) · Edirne
1565 The Hunters in the Snow — Pieter Bruegel the Elder · Northern Renaissance · Brussels
c. 1565–1572 Humayun's Tomb — Mirak Mirza Ghiyas · Mughal Art · Delhi
c. 1562 Pope Marcellus Mass — Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina · Italian Renaissance · Rome