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Born c.1500 • Burgos • Spain
Died May 31, 1577 • Segovia • Spain
Movement / Style Plateresque
Notable Family Members father Juan Gil de Hontañón
Subjects Of Study architecture

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Segovia: cathedral
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José Benito Churriguera
Spanish architect
Herrera, Juan de: Cathedral of Valladolid
Juan de Herrera
Spanish architect
Escalera Dorada (Golden Staircase), Burgos Cathedral, Spain, by Diego de Siloé, 1519–23.
Diego de Siloé
Spanish artist
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius
German-American architect
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Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Austrian architect
Nervi
Pier Luigi Nervi
Italian engineer and architect
Bacchus
Jacopo Sansovino
Italian sculptor
Latrobe, Benjamin
Benjamin Latrobe
American architect
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Matvey Fyodorovich Kazakov
Russian architect
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Germain Boffrand
French architect
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Jane Drew
British architect
Cram, Ralph Adams
Ralph Adams Cram
American architect and writer
Dôme des Invalides, Paris
Jules Hardouin-Mansart
French architect
Church of S. Marcello, Rome, by Carlo Fontana, c. 1683
Carlo Fontana
Italian architect
Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. The building was designed by Giacomo Antonio Domenico Quarenghi.
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Quarenghi
Italian painter and architect
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Bernardo Rossellino
Italian sculptor
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Bernard Maybeck
American architect
Klenze, Leo von: Glyptothek
Leo von Klenze
German architect
House in the Wood
Pieter Post
Dutch architect
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Joaquín Churriguera
Spanish architect

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