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Facts

Born February 12, 1728 • Paris • France
Died February 6, 1799 (aged 70) • Paris • France
Movement / Style Neoclassical art
Subjects Of Study shape • architecture • philosophy of art

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Drawing by Etienne-Louis Boullee showing a vast neoclassical church interior with massive domes, coffered ceilings, columns, and tiny human figures for scale.
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Hôtel de Ville (town hall), Metz, France, by Jacques-François Blondel, 1765.
Jacques-François Blondel
French architect
The Director's Pavillion, salt mines at Arc-et-Senans, near Besançon, Fr., by Ledoux, 1773–75
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
French architect
Arc de Triomphe
Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin
French architect
The Panthéon in Paris
Jacques-Germain Soufflot
French architect
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Victor Louis
French architect
Desprez, Louis-Jean: Botanical Garden's conservatory
Louis-Jean Desprez
French painter and architect
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius
German-American architect
Art Nouveau initial
Henry van de Velde
Belgian architect
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Ray Kappe
American architect and educator
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Otto Wagner
Austrian architect
Robert Adam, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Robert Adam
Scottish architect
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.
Manuel Tolsá
Spanish-born sculptor and architect
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Matvey Fyodorovich Kazakov
Russian architect
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Horatio Greenough
American sculptor and writer
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George Dance, the Younger
British architect and artist
Historic architectural drawing by James Hoban from 1792 showing the front elevation of the White House, with symmetrical windows and a central columned entrance.
James Hoban
Irish American architect
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József Hild
Hungarian architect
Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. The building was designed by Giacomo Antonio Domenico Quarenghi.
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Quarenghi
Italian painter and architect
Bulfinch, Charles
Charles Bulfinch
American architect
Ealing: Pitzhanger Manor-House
Sir John Soane
British architect

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