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Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born 1739 • Paris • France
Died January 20, 1811 (aged 72) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors Prix de Rome
Movement / Style Neoclassical art

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François de Cuvilliés the Elder
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Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine
French architect
Le Corbusier
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Swiss architect
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Matvey Fyodorovich Kazakov
Russian architect
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
Bulfinch, Charles
Charles Bulfinch
American architect
Klenze, Leo von: Glyptothek
Leo von Klenze
German architect
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Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni
French theatrical designer and architect
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc.
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
French architect
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Jacques Lemercier
French architect
Church of Notre-Dame, Le Raincy, Fr., by Auguste and Gustave Perret, 1923, with stained glass by Maurice Denis
Auguste Perret
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Lúcio Costa
Brazilian architect
Dôme des Invalides, Paris
Jules Hardouin-Mansart
French 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
French architect
The Panthéon in Paris
Jacques-Germain Soufflot
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Victor Louis
French architect
Desprez, Louis-Jean: Botanical Garden's conservatory
Louis-Jean Desprez
French painter and architect
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Hector-Martin Lefuel
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