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one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history. He was accorded responsibility for rebuilding 52 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including his masterpiece, St. Paul's Cathedral, on Ludgate Hill, completed in 1710.
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02/25/1723-Christopher Wren, mathematician, astronomer and architect, dies
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Christopher Wren1632, Oct 201653
 
17181723, Feb 25

Alonzo Cano1601, Mar 191629
 
16561667, Sep 3
 a Spanish painter, architect and sculptor. He was made first royal architect, painter to Philip I...
Francois Mansart1598, Jan 131620
 
16591666, Sep 23
 a French architect credited with introducing classicism into Baroque architecture of France. The ...
Pietro da Cortona1596/97, Nov 11620
 
16601669, May 16
 was the leading Italian Baroque painter of his time and, along with his contemporaries and rivals...
Tommaso Dingli1591, Dec 221608
 
16661666
 an architect famous for having designed many parish churches in various localities. His masterpie...
Francesco Borromini1599, Sep 251619
 
16671667, Aug 2
 an Italian architect who was a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture. A k...
Thomas de Keyser1596 ca1620
 
16671667
 a Dutch painter and architect. He excelled as a portrait painter, and was the most in-demand port...
Pieter Jansz Post1608, May 11623
 
16691669, Apr/May
 He is credited with the creation of the Dutch baroque style of architecture, along with his longt...
John Webb16111628
 
16691672, Oct 24
 an English architect and scholar. In 1654 Webb designed the first classical portico on an English...
Louis Le Vau16121630
 
16691670, Oct 11
 a French Classical architect who worked for Louis XIV of France. He was born and died in Paris. H...
Maurits Post1645, Dec 101669
 
 
16771677, Jun 6
 a Dutch Golden Age architect. Post was the son of the architect Pieter Post, and was probably his...
Gian Lorenzo Bernini1598, Dec 71609
 
16781680, Nov 28
 an Italian artist and a prominent architect who worked principally in Rome. He was the leading sc...
Baldassarre Longhena15981620
 
16801682, Feb 18
 an Italian architect, who worked mainly in Venice, where he was one of the greatest exponents of ...
Guarino Guarini1624, Jan 71648
 
16831683, Mar 6
 an Italian architect of the Piedmontese Baroque and Theatine priest, mathematician, and writer. H...
Francisco Herrera the Younger16221650
 
16851685, Aug 25
 a Spanish painter and architect. He excelled in still life. He already painted bodegones, fish so...
Pierre Paul Puget1620, Oct 161634
 
16881694, Dec 2
 a French painter, sculptor, architect and engineer. He was born in Marseille. At the age of fourt...
Carlo Rainaldi1611, May 41630
 
16891691, Feb 8
 an Italian architect of the Baroque period, one of the leading architects of 17th century Rome, k...
Andre Le Notre1613, Mar 121635
 
16911700, Sep 15
 a French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France. Most notably...
Lorenzo Gafa16381661
 
 
16991703
 a Maltese baroque architect. He worked on the church of St. Paul, Rabat (1664–1683); Sarria chu...
Franz Martinelli1651 ca1670
 
 
16991708, Oct 28
 an Austrian architect born in Italy. Father of Johann Baptist and Anton Erhard Martinelli. His mo...
Jules Hardouin-Mansart1646, Apr 161670
 
 
17031708, May 11
 a French architect whose work is generally considered to be the apex of French Baroque architectu...
Nicodemus Tessin the Younger1654, May 231681
 
 
17031728, Apr 10
 a Swedish Baroque architect, city planner, and administrator. Most of Tessin's projects as an arc...
Elizabeth Mytton Wilbraham16321671
 
 
17041705
 a member of the English aristocracy, who traditionally has been identified as an important archit...
Andrea Pozzo1642, Nov 301659
 
 
17091709, Aug 31
 an Italian Jesuit Brother, Baroque painter and architect, decorator, stage designer, and art theo...
James Smith [1]1645 ca1677
 
 
17101731
 a Scottish architect, who pioneered the Palladian style in Scotland. He was described by Colen Ca...
Domenico Martinelli1650, Nov 301670
 
17191718, Sep 11
 an Italian architect who was an evident figure in the shaping of Baroque style in the North Alps....
Christoph Dientzenhofer1655, Jul 71670
 
17221722, Jun 20
 a prominent Bavarian architect of South-German, Austrian and Bohemian Baroque. Among his works ar...
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach1656, Jul 201671
 
17231723, Apr 5
 an Austrian architect, sculptor, and architectural historian whose Baroque architecture profoundl...
Jan Blazej Santini-Aichel1677, Feb 31700
 
17231723, Dec 7
 a Bohemian-Czech architect of Italian descent, whose major works represent the unique Baroque Got...
Jakob Prandtauer1660, Jul 161680
 
17261726, Sep 16
 an Austrian Baroque architect. Trained as a stonemason rather than as an architect, he designed a...
Teodoro Ardemans1661 ca1702
 
17261726
 a Spanish architect and painter. He was a disciple of the painter Claudio Coello, although he mai...
Colen Campbell1676, Jun 151712
 
17291729, Sep 13
 a pioneering Scottish architect and architectural writer, credited as a founder of the Georgian s...
Domenico Trezzini1670 ca1703
 
17341734
 a Swiss Italian architect who elaborated the Petrine Baroque style of Russian architecture. Domen...
Cosmas Damian Asam1686, Sep 291713
 
17341739, May 10
 a German painter and architect during the late Baroque period. Brother of sculptor Egid Quirin As...
Nicholas Hawksmoor1661 ca1679
 
17361736, Mar 25
 an English architect. He was a leading figure of the English Baroque style of architecture in the...
Filippo Juvarra1678, Mar 71705
 
17361736, Jan 31
 an Italian architect and stage set designer, active in a late-Baroque style. In 1708 he created h...
Giacomo Leoni16861710
 
17391746, Jun 8
 an Italian architect, born in Venice. He was a devotee of the work of Florentine Renaissance arch...
Josef Munggenast1680, Mar 51717
 
17391741, May 3
 an Austrian architect and masterbuilder of the Baroque period. Munggenast was born in Schnann in ...
William Kent1685 ca1709
 
17431748, Apr 12
 An eminent English architect, landscape architect and furniture designer of the early 18th centur...
Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt1668, Nov 141696
 
17451745, Nov 16
 an Austrian baroque architect and military engineer who designed stately buildings and churches a...
William Adam16891714
 
17461748, Jun 24
 a Scottish architect, mason, and entrepreneur. He was the foremost architect of his time in Scotl...
Anton Erhard Martinelli16841700
 
17471747, Sep 15
 an Austrian architect and master-builder of Italian descent. Son of architect Franz Martinelli, b...
Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer1689, Sep 11717
 
17511751, Dec 18
 a Bohemian architect of the Baroque era. He was the fifth son of the German architect Christoph D...
Balthasar Neumann1687, Jan 271712
 
17531753, Aug 19
 a German architect and military artillery engineer who developed a refined brand of Baroque archi...
Dominikus Zimmermann1685, jun 301716
 
17541766, Nov 16
 a German Rococo architect and stuccoist. Brother of Johann Baptist Zimmermann. Born in Gaispoint ...
Johann Baptist Zimmermann1680, Jan 31701
 
17571758, Mar 2
 a German painter and a prime stucco plasterer during the Baroque, he was born in Gaispoint, Wesso...
Giorgio Massari1687, Oct 131715
 
17591766, Dec 20
 an Italian late-Baroque architect from Venice. He designed the Villa Lattes near Treviso in 1715,...
Johann Michael Fischer1692, Feb 181714
 
17661766, May 6
 a German architect in the late Baroque period. He studied in Bohemia and combined Bohemian elemen...
Joao Frederico Ludovice16731698
 
 
1831752
 a German born architect and goldsmith. Ludovice was born in Hohenhart. In 1698 he went to Italy, ...
Giovanni Paolo Panini1691, Jun 171710
 
 
1841765, Oct 21
 a painter and architect, who worked in Rome and is mainly known as one of the vedutisti ("view pa...
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