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1624, Jan 71648-16831683, Mar 6
an Italian architect of the Piedmontese Baroque and Theatine priest, mathematician, and writer. He wrote four mathematical books in both Latin and Italian, of which Euclides adauctus is a work on descriptive geometry. In 1665, he published a mathematical-philosophical tract Placita Philosophica defending the geocentric universe against Nicolaus Copernicus and Galileo Galilei. He also designed a large number of public and private buildings in Turin
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Guarino Guarini1624, Jan 71648
 
16831683, Mar 6

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 ...
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...
Christopher Wren1632, Oct 201653
 
17181723, Feb 25
 one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history. He was accorded responsibility fo...
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...
Jakob Prandtauer1660, Jul 161680
 
17261726, Sep 16
 an Austrian Baroque architect. Trained as a stonemason rather than as an architect, he designed a...
Nicholas Hawksmoor1661 ca1679
 
17361736, Mar 25
 an English architect. He was a leading figure of the English Baroque style of architecture in the...
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