Euro banknotes Gothic architecture, the 50 euro note of the Renaissance, the 100 euro note of Baroque and Rococo, the 200 euro note of Art Nouveau and the 500 euro note of modern architecture. The initial designs by Robert Kalina were of actual bridges, including the Rialto Bridge in Venice and the Pont de Neuilly in Paris, and were subsequently rendered more generic. In 2011, Dutch artist Robin Stam and the town of Spijkenisse in the Netherlands built seven bridges of colored concrete after the designs on the seven euro banknotes. The euro banknotes bear the signature of the President of the
Birds of Canada (banknotes) process required three lithographic plates and one intaglio plate for the obverse, and three lithographic plates for the reverse. The obverse of four banknotes feature a Prime Minister of Canada, whereas the others feature Elizabeth II. The design on the reverse of each note features a bird indigenous to Canada with a background representing the typical landscape for that bird. The birds represented in the series are found throughout Canada, and their colouring complements the dominant colour of the denomination on which they appear. In a Toronto Star article in 1990, Christopher Hume stated that having a bird on each