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Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin
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Facts

Born 1739 • Paris • France
Died January 20, 1811 (aged 72) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors Prix de Rome
Movement / Style Neoclassical art

Photos

Arc de Triomphe
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George Dance, the Younger
British architect and artist
rocaille decorated doors
François de Cuvilliés the Elder
French architect
Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine
French architect
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Swiss architect
Matvey Fyodorovich Kazakov
Russian architect
White House, drawing by James Hoban
James Hoban
Irish architect
Bulfinch, Charles
Charles Bulfinch
American architect
Klenze, Leo von: Glyptothek
Leo von Klenze
German architect
Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni
French theatrical designer and architect
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc.
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
French architect
Jacques Lemercier
French architect
Church of Notre-Dame, Le Raincy, Fr., by Auguste and Gustave Perret, 1923, with stained glass by Maurice Denis
Auguste Perret
French architect
Lúcio Costa
Brazilian architect
Dôme des Invalides, Paris
Jules Hardouin-Mansart
French architect
The Director's Pavillion, salt mines at Arc-et-Senans, near Besançon, Fr., by Ledoux, 1773–75
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
French architect
Étienne-Louis Boullée: church drawing
Étienne-Louis Boullée
French architect
The Panthéon in Paris
Jacques-Germain Soufflot
French architect
Victor Louis
French architect
Desprez, Louis-Jean: Botanical Garden's conservatory
Louis-Jean Desprez
French painter and architect
Hector-Martin Lefuel
French architect

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