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Facts

Born May 26, 1700 • Naples • Italy
Died March 1, 1773 (aged 72) • near Naples • Caserta • Italy
Movement / Style Baroque art and architecture

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Staircase of the Royal Palace, Caserta, Italy, by Luigi Vanvitelli, 1752
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Guarini, Guarino: dome of San Lorenzo
Guarino Guarini
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Juvarra, Filippo: Stupinigi's royal hunting lodge
Filippo Juvarra
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Facade of St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, by Carlo Maderno, 1607.
Carlo Maderno
Italian architect
Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati, Italy
Giacomo della Porta
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Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Austrian architect
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Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli
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Würzburg Residenz, designed by Balthasar Neumann, 18th century, Würzburg, Germany.
Balthasar Neumann
German architect
Garden facade of Belvedere Palace, Vienna, by Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt
Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt
Austrian architect
Dôme des Invalides, Paris
Jules Hardouin-Mansart
French architect
Royal Palace
Nicodemus Tessin the Younger
Swedish architect
Jacob van Campen: Mauritshuis
Jacob van Campen
Dutch architect
House in the Wood
Pieter Post
Dutch architect
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Antonio da Sangallo, the Younger
Italian architect
Andrea Palladio: Villa Rotonda
Andrea Palladio
Italian architect
Raphael: The Grand Duke's Madonna
Raphael
Italian painter and architect
Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti
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Bacchus
Jacopo Sansovino
Italian sculptor
Palazzo Farnese at Caprarola, Italy, by Giacomo da Vignola, 1559–73
Giacomo da Vignola
Italian architect
“Doris,” detail from the “Fountain of Neptune,” executed from Bartolommeo Ammannati's model by Andrea Calamech, 1563–75; in Piazza della Signoria, Florence
Bartolommeo Ammannati
Italian sculptor and architect
Palazzo Medici, Florence
Michelozzo
Italian artist

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