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Also Known As François Mansard
Born January 1598 • Paris • France
Died September 1666 (aged 68)
Movement / Style Baroque art and architecture

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Mansart, François: Château of Maisons
The château of Balleroy, designed by François Mansart, built c. 1631 near Bayeux, France.
Church of the Val-de-Grâce
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Dôme des Invalides, Paris
Jules Hardouin-Mansart
French architect
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Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau
French architect
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Pierre Fontaine
French architect
The Director's Pavillion, salt mines at Arc-et-Senans, near Besançon, Fr., by Ledoux, 1773–75
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
French architect
Delorme, Philibert
Philibert Delorme
French architect
Paris: Place de la Concorde
Ange-Jacques Gabriel
French architect
Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine
French architect
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Jacques Lemercier
French architect
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Hector-Martin Lefuel
French architect
Bullant, Jean: Êcouen château
Jean Bullant
French architect
Brosse, Salomon de: Palais du Luxembourg
Salomon de Brosse
French architect
Pierre Lescot, marble portrait bust by Julie Charpentier, 1814; in the Musée de Versailles, France.
Pierre Lescot
French architect
Smolny Cathedral
Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli
architect
Recreation, engraving by Abraham Bosse, 1635.
Abraham Bosse
French artist
Sir Christopher Wren, detail of an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1711; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Christopher Wren
English architect
Lorenzo Bernini: Apollo and Daphne
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian artist
Rome: Piazza Navona
Francesco Borromini
Italian architect
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Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Austrian architect
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Sir John Vanbrugh
British dramatist and architect
Pietro da Cortona: St. Martina
Pietro da Cortona
Italian artist

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