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Also Known As Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli, the Younger
Born 1700 • Paris • France
Died April 1771 (aged 71) • St. Petersburg • Russia
Movement / Style Baroque art and architecture

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Smolny Cathedral
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Dôme des Invalides, Paris
Jules Hardouin-Mansart
French architect
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Austrian architect
Würzburg Residenz, designed by Balthasar Neumann, 18th century, Würzburg, Germany.
Balthasar Neumann
German architect
Guarini, Guarino: dome of San Lorenzo
Guarino Guarini
Italian architect, priest, mathematician, and theologian
Garden facade of Belvedere Palace, Vienna, by Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt
Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt
Austrian architect
Juvarra, Filippo: Stupinigi's royal hunting lodge
Filippo Juvarra
Italian architect
Facade of St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, by Carlo Maderno, 1607.
Carlo Maderno
Italian architect
Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati, Italy
Giacomo della Porta
Italian architect
Staircase of the Royal Palace, Caserta, Italy, by Luigi Vanvitelli, 1752
Luigi Vanvitelli
Italian architect
Royal Palace
Nicodemus Tessin the Younger
Swedish architect
Jacob van Campen: Mauritshuis
Jacob van Campen
Dutch architect
House in the Wood
Pieter Post
Dutch architect
Matvey Fyodorovich Kazakov
Russian architect
Germain Boffrand
French architect
Delorme, Philibert
Philibert Delorme
French architect
Paris: Place de la Concorde
Ange-Jacques Gabriel
French architect
Jacques Lemercier
French architect
Robert de Cotte
French architect
Brosse, Salomon de: Palais du Luxembourg
Salomon de Brosse
French architect
Mansart, François: Château of Maisons
François Mansart
French architect

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