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Architects born active died
1668, Nov 14 1696-1745 1745, Nov 16
an Austrian baroque architect and military engineer who designed stately buildings and churches and whose work had a profound influence on the architecture of the Habsburg Empire in the eighteenth century.
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Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt 1668, Nov 14 1696
1745 1745, Nov 16
Lorenzo Gafa 1638 1661 1699 1703 a Maltese baroque architect. He worked on the church of St. Paul, Rabat (1664–1683); Sarria chu... Franz Martinelli 1651 ca 1670 1699 1708, Oct 28 an Austrian architect born in Italy. Father of Johann Baptist and Anton Erhard Martinelli. His mo... Jules Hardouin-Mansart 1646, Apr 16 1670 1703 1708, May 11 a French architect whose work is generally considered to be the apex of French Baroque architectu... Nicodemus Tessin the Younger 1654, May 23 1681 1703 1728, Apr 10 a Swedish Baroque architect, city planner, and administrator. Most of Tessin's projects as an arc... Elizabeth Mytton Wilbraham 1632 1671 1704 1705 a member of the English aristocracy, who traditionally has been identified as an important archit... Andrea Pozzo 1642, Nov 30 1659 1709 1709, Aug 31 an Italian Jesuit Brother, Baroque painter and architect, decorator, stage designer, and art theo... James Smith [1] 1645 ca 1677 1710 1731 a Scottish architect, who pioneered the Palladian style in Scotland. He was described by Colen Ca... Christopher Wren 1632, Oct 20 1653 1718 1723, Feb 25 one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history. He was accorded responsibility fo... Domenico Martinelli 1650, Nov 30 1670 1719 1718, Sep 11 an Italian architect who was an evident figure in the shaping of Baroque style in the North Alps.... Christoph Dientzenhofer 1655, Jul 7 1670 1722 1722, Jun 20 a prominent Bavarian architect of South-German, Austrian and Bohemian Baroque. Among his works ar... Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach 1656, Jul 20 1671 1723 1723, Apr 5 an Austrian architect, sculptor, and architectural historian whose Baroque architecture profoundl... Jan Blazej Santini-Aichel 1677, Feb 3 1700 1723 1723, Dec 7 a Bohemian-Czech architect of Italian descent, whose major works represent the unique Baroque Got... Jakob Prandtauer 1660, Jul 16 1680 1726 1726, Sep 16 an Austrian Baroque architect. Trained as a stonemason rather than as an architect, he designed a... Teodoro Ardemans 1661 ca 1702 1726 1726 a Spanish architect and painter. He was a disciple of the painter Claudio Coello, although he mai... Colen Campbell 1676, Jun 15 1712 1729 1729, Sep 13 a pioneering Scottish architect and architectural writer, credited as a founder of the Georgian s... Edward Lovett Pearce 1699 1720 1733 1733, Dec 7 an Irish architect, and the chief exponent of palladianism in Ireland. He is best known for the I... Domenico Trezzini 1670 ca 1703 1734 1734 a Swiss Italian architect who elaborated the Petrine Baroque style of Russian architecture. Domen... Cosmas Damian Asam 1686, Sep 29 1713 1734 1739, May 10 a German painter and architect during the late Baroque period. Brother of sculptor Egid Quirin As... Nicholas Hawksmoor 1661 ca 1679 1736 1736, Mar 25 an English architect. He was a leading figure of the English Baroque style of architecture in the... Filippo Juvarra 1678, Mar 7 1705 1736 1736, Jan 31 an Italian architect and stage set designer, active in a late-Baroque style. In 1708 he created h... Giacomo Leoni 1686 1710 1739 1746, Jun 8 an Italian architect, born in Venice. He was a devotee of the work of Florentine Renaissance arch... Josef Munggenast 1680, Mar 5 1717 1739 1741, May 3 an Austrian architect and masterbuilder of the Baroque period. Munggenast was born in Schnann in ... William Kent 1685 ca 1709 1743 1748, Apr 12 An eminent English architect, landscape architect and furniture designer of the early 18th centur... William Adam 1689 1714 1746 1748, Jun 24 a Scottish architect, mason, and entrepreneur. He was the foremost architect of his time in Scotl... Anton Erhard Martinelli 1684 1700 1747 1747, Sep 15 an Austrian architect and master-builder of Italian descent. Son of architect Franz Martinelli, b... Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer 1689, Sep 1 1717 1751 1751, Dec 18 a Bohemian architect of the Baroque era. He was the fifth son of the German architect Christoph D... Richard Cassels 1690 1728 1751 1751 one of the greatest architects working in Ireland in the 18th century. The untimely death of Edwa... Carl Marcus Tuscher 1705, Jun 1 1728 1751 1751, Jan 6 a German-born Danish polymath: portrait painter, printmaker, architect, and decorator of the Baro... Balthasar Neumann 1687, Jan 27 1712 1753 1753, Aug 19 a German architect and military artillery engineer who developed a refined brand of Baroque archi... Dominikus Zimmermann 1685, jun 30 1716 1754 1766, Nov 16 a German Rococo architect and stuccoist. Brother of Johann Baptist Zimmermann. Born in Gaispoint ... Nicolai Eigtved 1701, Jun 4/22 1720 1754 1754, Jun 7 a Danish architect, introduced and was the leading proponent of the French rococo style in Danish... John Wood the Elder 1704 1725 1754 1754, May 23 an English architect, working mainly in Bath. In 1740 he surveyed Stonehenge and the Stanton Drew... Johann Baptist Zimmermann 1680, Jan 3 1701 1757 1758, Mar 2 a German painter and a prime stucco plasterer during the Baroque, he was born in Gaispoint, Wesso... Giorgio Massari 1687, Oct 13 1715 1759 1766, Dec 20 an Italian late-Baroque architect from Venice. He designed the Villa Lattes near Treviso in 1715,... Johann Baptist Martinelli 1701, Feb 1720 1759 1754, Jun 21 an Austrian architect and constructor of Italian descent. He was born in Vienna, the son of archi... Lauritz de Thurah 1706, Mar 4 1725 1759 1759, Sep 5 a Danish architect and architectural writer. He became the most important Danish architect of the... Ivan Fyodorovich Michurin 1700 1729 1763 1763 a Russian architect whose designs marked a transition of Russian architecture from early Muscovit... Johann Michael Fischer 1692, Feb 18 1714 1766 1766, May 6 a German architect in the late Baroque period. He studied in Bohemia and combined Bohemian elemen... François de Cuvillies 1695, Oct 23 1724 1768 1768, Apr 14 a Belgian-born Bavarian decorative designer and architect who was instrumental in bringing the Ro... Luigi Vanvitelli 1700, May 12 1732 1769 1773, Mar 1 an Italian engineer and architect. The most prominent 18th-century architect of Italy, he practis... Bernardo Vittone 1704, Aug 19 1732 1769 1770, Oct 19 an Italian architect and writer. He was one of the three most important Baroque architects active... Jose Ramirez de Arellano 1705 1740 1770 1770, Mar 27 a Spanish Baroque architect and sculptor. He was the son of the sculptor Juan Ramírez Mejandre, ... Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli 1700 1721 1771 1771, Apr 29 an Italian architect whose entire career was spent in Russia. He developed an easily recognizable... Ange-Jacques Gabriel 1698, Oct 23 1728 1777 1782, Jan 4 the most prominent French architect of his generation. His sober rationality in planning and deta... John Douglas 1709 ca 1730 1779 1778, Jun 20 a Scottish architect who designed and reformed several country houses in the Scottish Lowlands. H... Sir Robert Taylor 1714 1740 1788 1788 a notable English architect of the mid-late 18th century. Among his earliest projects was Asgill ... Thomas Sandby 1721 1740 1789 1798, Jun 25 an English draughtsman, watercolour artist, architect and teacher. In 1743 he was appointed priva... Nicolas-Henri Jardin 1720, Mar 22 1738 1793 1799, Aug 31 a neoclassical architect, was born in St. Germain des Noyers, Dept. Seine-et-Marne, France, and... Sir William Chambers 1723, Feb 23 1740 1796 1796, Mar 10 a Scottish-Swedish architect, based in London. Among his best-known works are Somerset House, Lon... Joao Frederico Ludovice 1673 1698 183 1752 a German born architect and goldsmith. Ludovice was born in Hohenhart. In 1698 he went to Italy, ... Giovanni Paolo Panini 1691, Jun 17 1710 184 1765, Oct 21 a painter and architect, who worked in Rome and is mainly known as one of the vedutisti ("view pa...
