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Facts

Born 1608 • Haarlem • Netherlands
Died 1669 (aged 61) • The Hague • Netherlands
Movement / Style Baroque art and architecture • Palladianism

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House in the Wood
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Jacob van Campen: Mauritshuis
Jacob van Campen
Dutch architect
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Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Austrian architect
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Matvey Fyodorovich Kazakov
Russian architect
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Germain Boffrand
French architect
Dôme des Invalides, Paris
Jules Hardouin-Mansart
French architect
Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. The building was designed by Giacomo Antonio Domenico Quarenghi.
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Quarenghi
Italian painter and architect
The Radcliffe Camera, designed by James Gibbs
James Gibbs
Scottish architect
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Swiss architect
Robert Adam, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Robert Adam
Scottish 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
Hunt, Richard Morris
Richard Morris Hunt
American architect
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Marcel Breuer
Hungarian architect
McKim, Charles Follen
Charles Follen McKim
American architect

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