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Filippo Brunelleschi
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Italian architect
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Pier Luigi Nervi
Italian engineer and architect
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc.
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
French architect
Bronze equestrian statue of Charles IV by Manuel Tolsa, showing the king in regal attire on horseback in front of a historic stone building in Mexico City.
Manuel Tolsá
Spanish-born sculptor and architect
Latrobe, Benjamin
Benjamin Latrobe
American architect
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Joaquín Churriguera
Spanish architect
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José Benito Churriguera
Spanish architect
St. John's College Chapel
Sir George Gilbert Scott
British architect
Smithsonian Institution
James Renwick
American architect
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William Of Sens
French architect
James Wyatt, c. 1800.
James Wyatt
British architect
Escalera Dorada (Golden Staircase), Burgos Cathedral, Spain, by Diego de Siloé, 1519–23.
Diego de Siloé
Spanish artist
Arnolfo di Cambio, statue by Luigi Pampaloni, 1830; near the Duomo, Florence.
Arnolfo di Cambio
Italian sculptor and architect
Herrera, Juan de: Cathedral of Valladolid
Juan de Herrera
Spanish architect
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Bernardo Rossellino
Italian sculptor
Segovia: cathedral
Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón
Spanish architect
Burges, William: St. Finbar's Cathedral
William Burges
British architect
Maitani, Lorenzo: Orvieto Cathedral facade
Lorenzo Maitani
Italian sculptor
Prague: St. Vitus's Cathedral
Petr Parléř
German mason
Segovia: cathedral
Juan Gil de Hontañón
Spanish architect

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