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    French colonial architecture includes several styles of architecture used by the French during colonization. Many former French colonies, especially those...
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    Jacques-François Blondel (category French architecture writers)
    civil structures". In his clear and rational Architecture françoise, a four-volume work published from 1752 to 1756, he covered the past century and more...
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    Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the late 16th century and gradually spread across Europe. It...
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    (2004). The Architecture of Paris. Stuttgart; London: Edition Axel Menges. ISBN 9783930698967. Blondel, Jacques-François (1752). Architecture françoise...
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    Nancy, Place Stanislas, E.Héré, 1752–1760.jpg France portal Architecture portal Style Louis XIV Style Louis XV Architecture of Paris French Baroque and Classicism...
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    Spanish architecture refers to architecture in any area of what is now Spain, and by Spanish architects worldwide. The term includes buildings which were...
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    Aix-en-Provence or simply Aix, is a city and commune in southern France, about 30 km (20 mi) north of Marseille. A former capital of Provence, it is the...
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  • The year 1757 in architecture involved some significant events. Frederiks Hospital, Copenhagen, is opened. Middlesex Hospital, London, is opened. Vorontsov...
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    bə-ROK, US: /-ˈroʊk/ -⁠ROHK; French: [baʁɔk]) is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished...
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    Palace of Versailles (category Baroque architecture at Versailles)
    001.0001. ISBN 978-0-1982-2745-8. Blondel, Jacque-François (1752–1756). Architecture françoise, ou Recueil des plans, élévations, coupes et profils...
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    Rococo (redirect from Rococo (architecture))
    as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding...
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    Greek Revival architecture was a style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries...
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    The architecture of Denmark has its origins in the Viking Age, revealed by archaeological finds. It was established in the Middle Ages when first Romanesque...
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    Neoclassicism is a movement in architecture, design and the arts which emerged in France in the 1740s and became dominant in France between about 1760...
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    movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity...
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    In architecture and the decorative arts, a mascaron ornament is a face, usually human, sometimes frightening or chimeric, whose alleged function was originally...
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    Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba (category Moorish architecture in Spain)
    Mosque-Cathedral Córdoba". Arte en Córdoba. 22 July 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2020. Stubbs, John H.; Makaš, Emily G. (2011). Architectural Conservation in Europe...
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    Sicilian Baroque is the distinctive form of Baroque architecture which evolved on the island of Sicily, off the southern coast of Italy, in the 17th and...
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    (1992). Moorish architecture in Andalusia. Taschen. p. 70. ISBN 3822876348. Fatima (7 October 2014). "El sabat de la Mezquita". Arte en Córdoba (in European...
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    Teylers Hofje (category 18th-century architecture in the Netherlands)
    to it. Pieter Teyler van der Hulst founded a hofje when his wife died in 1752 and he then purchased the Kolder hofje. That hofje was considerably renovated...
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    Sussex) in 1752; Chatsworth (Derbyshire) in 1761; Bowood (Wiltshire) in 1763; Blenheim Palace (Oxfordshire) in 1764. Humphry Repton (21 April 1752 – 24 March...
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    Sainte-Chapelle (category Gothic architecture in Paris)
    considered among the highest achievements of the Rayonnant period of Gothic architecture. It was commissioned by King Louis IX of France to house his collection...
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    Kunstkamera (category Baroque architecture in Saint Petersburg)
    inbreng, gereconstrueerd uit brieven van Albert Seba en Johann Daniel Schumacher uit de jaren 1711–1752. English summary, pp. 335–336. Driessen-Van het Reve...
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    elevation of the façade in his Architecture françoise of 1752, remarking: "The entire merit of this building lies in the architecture itself... and its greatness...
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  • processors. In later models, shaders are integrated into a unified shader architecture, where any one shader can perform any of the functions listed. Fillrate...
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    the Communion displays "The Pilgrims of Emmaeus", by Charles Coypel (1694–1752), vividly illustrating a celebration of the Eucharist, crowded with figures...
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    Vienna (/viˈɛnə/ vee-EN-ə; German: Wien [viːn] ; Austro-Bavarian: Wean [veɐ̯n]) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria...
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    Egyptian Revival architecture in the British Isles is a survey of motifs derived from Ancient Egyptian sources occurring as an architectural style. Egyptian...
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    Academy of Fine Arts, founded by Charles III of Bourbon in 1752 as the Real Accademia di Disegno (en: Royal Academy of Design), was the centre of the artistic...
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    of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (5 ed.). Penguin. p. 15. ISBN 0-14-051323-X. Curl, James Stevens (1999). Oxford Dictionary of Architecture and...
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