Pope Marcellus Mass
Legend says it saved polyphony from a ban at Trent by keeping the text clearly audible
- Author
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
- Style
- Italian Renaissance — Antiquity measured anew: linear perspective, anatomy and proportion as the measure of man
- Century
- 16th century
Made around the same time (±30 years)
- 1555–1561 Saint Basil's Cathedral — Barma and Postnik · Tented Churches · Moscow, Red Square
- 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
- 1557–1566 Stari Most — Mimar Hayruddin · Classical Ottoman Architecture (Sinan) · Mostar
- 1568–1575 Selimiye Mosque — Mimar Sinan · Classical Ottoman Architecture (Sinan) · Edirne
- c. 1571–1585 Fatehpur Sikri · Mughal Art · Fatehpur Sikri
- 1573–1813 Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral · Latin American Baroque · Mexico City
- 1550–1557 Süleymaniye Mosque — Mimar Sinan · Classical Ottoman Architecture (Sinan) · Istanbul
What was happening in the world
- 1547 Ivan IV crowned Tsar
- 1569 Union of Lublin
- 1555–1561 Saint Basil's Cathedral
- 1556 Shaanxi earthquake
- 1556 Akbar and the Second Battle of Panipat
- 1571 Battle of Lepanto