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Also Known As Gabriel-Germain Boffrand
Born May 7, 1667 • Nantes • France
Died March 18, 1754 (aged 86) • Paris • France
Movement / Style Rococo
Subjects Of Study architecture
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Robert de Cotte
French architect
Robert Adam, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Robert Adam
Scottish architect
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Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Austrian architect
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Matvey Fyodorovich Kazakov
Russian architect
House in the Wood
Pieter Post
Dutch architect
Dôme des Invalides, Paris
Jules Hardouin-Mansart
French architect
Les Invalides, Paris
Libéral Bruant
French architect
Place des Abbesses metro station, Paris
Hector Guimard
French architect
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Juste-Aurèle Meissonier
French architect and goldsmith
rocaille decorated doors
François de Cuvilliés the Elder
French architect
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Swiss architect
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius
German-American architect
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American architect
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H.H. Richardson
American architect
Bacchus
Jacopo Sansovino
Italian sculptor
Philip Johnson: AT&T Building
Philip Johnson
American architect
Juan O'Gorman: Retablo de la independencia
Juan O’Gorman
Mexican architect and muralist
Latrobe, Benjamin
Benjamin Latrobe
American architect
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, Calif., by Louis I. Kahn, 1959–65
Louis Kahn
American architect
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Scottish architect and designer

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