article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1708. July 14 – Joseph Trapp becomes the first Oxford Professor of Poetry. unknown...
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Jules Hardouin-Mansart (category 1708 deaths)
Hardouin-Mansart (French pronunciation: [ʒyl aʁdwɛ̃ mɑ̃saʁ]; 16 April 1646 – 11 May 1708) was a French Baroque architect and builder whose major work included the...
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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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French Baroque architecture, usually called French classicism, was a style of architecture during the reigns of Louis XIII (1610–1643), Louis XIV (1643–1715)...
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Bâtiments du Roi (category Ancien Régime French architecture)
Colbert de Villacerf (1629–1699) 1699–1708: Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646–1708) (also Premier architecte du Roi) 1708–1736: Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de...
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Acadian architecture, also known as Cadien architecture, is a traditional style of architecture used by Acadians and Cajuns. It is prevalent in Acadia...
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Aix-en-Provence (UK: /ˌɛks ɒ̃ prɒˈvɒ̃s/, US: /ˌeɪks ɒ̃ proʊˈvɒ̃s, ˌɛks -/, French: [ɛks ɑ̃ pʁɔvɑ̃s] ; Provençal: Ais de Provença in classical norm, or...
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Baroque (redirect from Baroque Art and Architecture)
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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Philippe de La Hire (category Architectural theoreticians)
céleste (1705) "Des conchoïdes en général". In: Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences, p. 32 of the memoirs section (1708) Tabulæ astronomicæ Ludovici...
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(Paris, 1708) Bibliotheca Coisliniana olim Segueriana, Paris: Ludovicus Guerin & Carolus Robustel, (Paris, 1715) L'antiquité expliquée et representée en figures/Antiquitas...
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Palace of Versailles (category Baroque architecture at Versailles)
"Chapelle royale". In Gady, Alexandre (ed.). Jules hardouin-Mansart 1646–1708. Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme. pp. 215–228. ISBN 9782735111879...
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Louis XIV style (category Ancien Régime French architecture)
(1680–1687) Façade of the Hôtel de Soubise by Pierre-Alexis Delamair (1704–1708) In the early period of his reign, Louis began building the church of Val-de-Grâce...
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Parterre (redirect from Parterres en broderie)
Wise, whose nursery was nearby at Brompton. In an engraving from 1707 to 1708, the up-to-date Baroque designs of each section are clipped scrolling designs...
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Mansard roof (category Architectural elements)
including Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646–1708), his great-nephew, who is responsible for Château de Dampierre in Dampierre-en-Yvelines.[citation needed] The mansard...
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ordered the construction of a larger wing for the Trianon, which was begun in 1708 by Hardouin-Mansart; this wing, called Trianon-sous-Bois, housed the Orléans...
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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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one of the failed Starlink satellites from the recent launch, reentered at 1708 UTC Feb 12 off the coast of California. I believe this to be the last of...
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six years later by the laying of the cornerstone for the Church itself. In 1708 the cloisters, library, and infirmary were completed. The church was inaugurated...
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commissioned prominent royal architect Robert de Cotte to rearrange it. In 1708, De Cotte and his agency carried out several repairs and planned a bold reconstruction...
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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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Dutch colonial empire (section Architecture)
Heather-Ann (ed.). Dutch South Africa: Early Settlers at the Cape, 1652–1708. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 2–13. ISBN 978-1904744955...
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numerals (1705–1710) and the Cyrillic font with a civil script (1708–1710). In 1708, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz became an advisor and offered to write...
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Heather-Ann (ed.). Dutch South Africa: Early Settlers at the Cape, 1652–1708. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 13–35. ISBN 978-1-904744-95-5...
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Observatory is located. MPC · 7481 7483 Sekitakakazu 1994 VO2 Takakazu Seki (1642–1708), Japanese mathematician and calendar scientist MPC · 7483 7484 Dogo Onsen...
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designs; this Franco-Dutch garden style spread to England after 1660, but by 1708-09 one searches in vain for fanciful topiary among the clipped hedges and...
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Dresden (redirect from Architecture of Dresden)
(born 1978), politician (The Left) Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651–1708), German mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher Christoph M...
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Rohan (1705–1708), built for Soubise's son, Armand-Gaston, bishop of Strasbourg, and revisions to the former Palais Rohan in Strasbourg (1705–1708, demolished...
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bridge in Willemstad Queen Emma Bridge by night Penha Building, built in 1708 The Queen Juliana Bridge over St. Anna Bay in Willemstad, Curaçao "Curaçao"...
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Oran (section Spanish period (1509–1708, 1732–1792))
Spanish sovereignty lasted until 1708 when the city was conquered by the Algerians during the siege of Siege of Oran (1707–1708). Spain recaptured the city...
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Čachtice Castle (category Romanesque architecture in Slovakia)
16th centuries. A Renaissance renovation followed in the 17th century. In 1708 the castle was captured by the rebels of Francis II Rákóczi. It was neglected...
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