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Sir John Thynne
English architect
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contributions to Renaissance architecture
- In Western architecture: England
Sir John Thynne, steward to the Lord Protector Somerset, designed several notable examples. The finest of these was his own house, Longleat (1568–c. 1580), on which he had the assistance of the mason Robert Smythson, who was to be the leading architect of the late…
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