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    Vincenzo Brenna (1747 – May 17, 1820) was an Italian architect and painter who was the house architect of Paul I of Russia. Brenna was hired by Paul and...
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  • Giuseppe Brenna (1898–1980), Italian cyclist Tom Brenna (born 1959), American scientist Troy Brenna (born 1970), American actor Vincenzo Brenna (1747–1820)...
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    involving the most illustrious architects of the period – Vasily Bazhenov, Vincenzo Brenna, Charles Cameron, Matvey Kazakov, Giacomo Quarenghi, and Ivan Starov...
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    and historian of neoclassical art, biographer of Charles Cameron, Vincenzo Brenna and Andreyan Zakharov. Lanceray was associated with Mir Iskusstva art...
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    1790s Paul expanded and rebuilt much of the palace, commissioning Vincenzo Brenna and Andrei Zakharov with the renovations. The interiors were redone...
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    architect Szymon Bogumił Zug while the internal design was prepared by Vincenzo Brenna. The palace featured a distinctive half-open salon, with a view on...
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    was ordered by Tsar Alexander I, to replace an earlier structure by Vincenzo Brenna, and was the fourth consecutive church standing at this place. A specially...
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    was built as a residence for Emperor Paul I of Russia by architects Vincenzo Brenna and Vasily Bazhenov in 1797–1801. It was named for St Michael the Archangel...
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  • Baldwin, English surveyor and architect in Bath (born c.1750) May 17 – Vincenzo Brenna, Italian architect and painter (born 1747) September 3 – Benjamin Latrobe...
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    was taken over by an Italian architect, Vincenzo Brenna, from Florence, who had come to Russia in 1783. Brenna designed interiors which reflected Paul's...
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    monument, but was turned down. The monument was built to the design of Vincenzo Brenna and was initially sited on the Tsaritsyn Meadow, later the Field of...
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    Reconstruction of the "golden vault" by Vincenzo Brenna...
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    artists (Francesco Rastrelli, Antonio Rinaldi, Giacomo Quarenghi, Vincenzo Brenna, Carlo Rossi, and many others). According to his first biographer Georgy...
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    was built in 1798–1800 by Vincenzo Brenna, an Italian architect and painter who was the court architect of Paul I. Brenna is considered a precursor of...
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    studio of architect Vincenzo Brenna. In 1795 he entered the service of the admiralty board of architecture; as the assistant to Brenna, together with whom...
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    1798 by Giovanni Visconti according to the design of famous architect Vincenzo Brenna. The Birch Gate is a part of the Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg...
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    general supervision of Yury Felten. The interiors were designed by Vincenzo Brenna in imitation of Piranesi's views of Rome. Jean-François Thomas de Thomon...
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    owners, with the addition of Rococo interiors designed by Rinaldi and Vincenzo Brenna, and executed by Italian stucco workers and Russian craftsmen. In 1854...
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    emperor, in 1796, he hired the Italian architect Vincenzo Brenna and raised money for the project. By 1798 Brenna raised a Gothic folly, Bip fortress, which...
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    Poniatowski and was admitted into the Saint Lucas Academy. As a colleague of Vincenzo Brenna he participated in cataloging artifacts from Nero's Domus Aurea. In...
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    was awarded to his house architect, Italian Vincenzo Brenna, while Bazhenov was appointed to supervise Brenna. Historians of the 19th and early 20th centuries...
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    Library Joseph Bové, chief architect of Moscow after the Fire of 1812 Vincenzo Brenna, court architect of Paul I of Russia Alexander Brullov, builder of...
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    Between 1786 and 1789 Cameron's duties in Pavlovsk passed to the Italian Vincenzo Brenna, hired by Paul in 1782. In the meantime Quarenghi became the official...
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    Saint Michael's Castle, built in 1797-1801 by Vasily Bazhenov and Vincenzo Brenna for Emperor Paul I. No. 2 – the mansion of Friedrich Wilhelm Bauer [ru]...
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    where there is a view of the portico of the great stables designed by Vincenzo Brenna and Karl Rossi. The street, then called New Lane (Russian: Новым переулком)...
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    down by Antonio Rinaldi in 1768, was partially completed in 1802 by Vincenzo Brenna. In 1816, Alexander I assigned Betancourt to find the architect who...
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  • Conservatory. Maly Theatre The Small Theatre was built in 1801 by architect Vincenzo Brenna for Italian impresario Antonio Casassi and his Italian Opera. In 1803...
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    Betskoy [ru] and the Saltykov Mansions. In 1799 an obelisk designed by Vincenzo Brenna was installed in the centre of the field in honour of Pyotr Rumyantsev...
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  • Nikolay Zubov Vera Karpova – Baroness Livsi Aleksandr Grigoryants – Vincenzo Brenna Dmitriy Sutyrin – Duke Yashvil 2003 - Kinotavr - M. Tariveridiev prize...
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    Jan Christian Kamsetzer, Chrystian Piotr Aigner, Fryderyk Bauman and Vincenzo Brenna. Following Izabela's death in 1816, Łańcut was inherited by her grandchildren...
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