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Born August 8, 1763 • Boston • Massachusetts
Died April 4, 1844 (aged 80) • Boston • Massachusetts
Movement / Style Neoclassical art

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Bulfinch, Charles
Massachusetts State House, Boston; designed by Charles Bulfinch.
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Historic architectural drawing by James Hoban from 1792 showing the front elevation of the White House, with symmetrical windows and a central columned entrance.
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Arc de Triomphe
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George Dance, the Younger
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Alfred B. Mullett
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Robert Mills
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Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Swiss architect
Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian architect
Rashtrapati Bhavan and the Jaipur Column
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British architect
Robert Adam, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Robert Adam
Scottish architect
The Director's Pavillion, salt mines at Arc-et-Senans, near Besançon, Fr., by Ledoux, 1773–75
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
French architect
Étienne-Louis Boullée: church drawing
Étienne-Louis Boullée
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Bronze equestrian statue of Charles IV by Manuel Tolsa, showing the king in regal attire on horseback in front of a historic stone building in Mexico City.
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The Panthéon in Paris
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