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31John Vanbrugh — Sir John Vanbrugh (pronounced Van bru ) (24 January 1664? – 26 March 1726) was an English architect and dramatist, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. He wrote two argumentative and outspoken Restoration… …
32Ex parte Merryman — 17 F. Cas. 144 (1861), is a well known U.S. federal court case which arose out of the American Civil War. Against President Abraham Lincoln s wishes, Chief Justice Roger Taney, sitting as a judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Distri …
33Humphry Repton — (21 April 1752 ndash; 24 March 1818), was the last great English landscape designer of the eighteenth century, often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown; he also sowed the seeds of the more intricate and eclectic styles of the… …
34Greek Revival architecture — Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany. The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States. A product of Hellenism, it may be looked upon as the last… …
35George of Poděbrady — George of Kunštát and Poděbrady (April 23, 1420 March 22, 1471), also known as Poděbrad or Podiebrad ( cs. Jiří z Poděbrad), was King of Bohemia (1458 1471). He was leader of the Hussites.LifeEarly lifeGeorge was the son of Victor of Kunštát and… …
36Karl Friedrich Schinkel — (March 13, 1781 – October 9, 1841) was a German architect and painter. Schinkel was the most prominent architect of neoclassicism in Prussia.Schinkel was born in Neuruppin in the Margraviate of Brandenburg. He lost his father at the age of six in …
37Baroque architecture — Façade of the Church of the Gesù, the first truly baroque façade.[1] Baroque architecture is a term used to describe the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late sixteenth century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance… …
38Codex Leicester — For the Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament also known as Codex Leicester, see Minuscule 69. Page of the Codex Leicester The Codex Leicester (also briefly known as Codex Hammer) is a collection of largely scientific writings by… …
39Basil Spence — Sir Basil Urwin Spence, OM, OBE, RA, (13 August 1907 ndash; 19 November 1976) was a Scottish architect, most notably associated with Coventry Cathedral in England and the Beehive in New Zealand, but also responsible for numerous other buildings… …
40Richard Norman Shaw — House for Kate Greenaway in Frognal, 1 …
