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Facts

Born December 23, 1682 • Scotland
Died August 5, 1754 (aged 71) • London • England
Movement / Style Baroque art and architecture • Palladianism

Photos

The Radcliffe Camera, a large circular stone building with a domed roof designed by James Gibbs, stands on a grassy lawn at Oxford University in Oxford, England.
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Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Austrian architect
Church of St. Nicholas in the Old City, Prague, by Christoph and Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, 1703–11, 1732–52
Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer
German architect
Jacob van Campen: Mauritshuis
Jacob van Campen
Dutch architect
House in the Wood
Pieter Post
Dutch architect
Upjohn, Richard: Trinity Church
Richard Upjohn
American architect
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Thomas Rickman
British architect
William Chambers
William Chambers
British architect
Harrison, Peter: Redwood Library
Peter Harrison
British architect
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Swiss architect
Portrait of Antoni Gaudi, Catalan architect, with a full beard and mustache, wearing a suit and looking slightly to the side. Photo by Pablo Audouard.
Antoni Gaudí
Spanish architect
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H.H. Richardson
American architect
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Matvey Fyodorovich Kazakov
Russian architect
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, Calif., by Louis I. Kahn, 1959–65
Louis Kahn
American architect
Smithsonian Institution
James Renwick
American architect
Downing, Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson Downing
American horticulturalist and landscape architect
Parris, Alexander: David Sears House
Alexander Parris
American architect
Benjamin, Asher: West Church
Asher Benjamin
American architect
Andrea Palladio: Villa Rotonda
Andrea Palladio
Italian architect
Lorenzo Bernini: Apollo and Daphne
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian artist
Rome: Piazza Navona
Francesco Borromini
Italian architect

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