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Also Known As Robert de Coste
Born 1656 • Paris • France
Died July 15, 1735 (aged 79) • Passy • France
Movement / Style Régence style • Rococo

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Palace of Versailles: chapel
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Germain Boffrand
French architect
Juste-Aurèle Meissonier
French architect and goldsmith
rocaille decorated doors
François de Cuvilliés the Elder
French architect
Etching of a design for a table from his book, Ornamens Inventory, by Jean Berain the Elder, c. 1670–1700.
Jean Berain, the Elder
French designer and painter
Robert Adam, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Robert Adam
Scottish architect
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Austrian architect
Matvey Fyodorovich Kazakov
Russian architect
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Scottish architect and designer
Northampton
Edward Godwin
British architect and writer
Henry Holland
British architect
Baldassarre Peruzzi: Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, Rome
Baldassarre Peruzzi
Italian painter and architect
House in the Wood
Pieter Post
Dutch architect
Würzburg Residenz, designed by Balthasar Neumann, 18th century, Würzburg, Germany.
Balthasar Neumann
German architect
Steinhausen: pilgrimage church
Dominikus Zimmermann
German architect
Juvarra, Filippo: Stupinigi's royal hunting lodge
Filippo Juvarra
Italian architect
Pierre Fontaine
French architect
Jean I Androuet du Cerceau
French architect
Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau
French architect
Smolny Cathedral
Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli
architect
The Director's Pavillion, salt mines at Arc-et-Senans, near Besançon, Fr., by Ledoux, 1773–75
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
French architect

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