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Born c.1530 • Spain
Died January 15, 1597 • Madrid • Spain
Movement / Style Herreran style

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Herrera, Juan de: Cathedral of Valladolid
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Michelozzo: Palazzo Medici-Riccardi
Michelozzo
Italian artist
José Benito Churriguera
Spanish architect
Escalera Dorada (Golden Staircase), Burgos Cathedral, Spain, by Diego de Siloé, 1519–23.
Diego de Siloé
Spanish artist
Segovia: cathedral
Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón
Spanish architect
Church of San Juan de los Reyes, Toledo, by Juan Guas
Juan Guas
Spanish architect
Andrea Palladio: Villa Rotonda
Andrea Palladio
Italian architect
Raphael: The Grand Duke's Madonna
Raphael
Italian painter and architect
Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and author
Filippo Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi
Italian architect
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Austrian architect
Inigo Jones
English architect and artist
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc.
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
French architect
Palazzo Farnese at Caprarola, Italy, by Giacomo da Vignola, 1559–73
Giacomo da Vignola
Italian architect
Matvey Fyodorovich Kazakov
Russian architect
Würzburg Residenz, designed by Balthasar Neumann, 18th century, Würzburg, Germany.
Balthasar Neumann
German architect
St. John's College Chapel
Sir George Gilbert Scott
British architect
Smithsonian Institution
James Renwick
American architect
Jacques Lemercier
French architect
Guarini, Guarino: dome of San Lorenzo
Guarino Guarini
Italian architect, priest, mathematician, and theologian
Dôme des Invalides, Paris
Jules Hardouin-Mansart
French architect

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