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Juan O’Gorman
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Juan O'Gorman: Retablo de la independencia Library of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, with murals by Juan O'Gorman. Mexico City: Library of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
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Born July 6, 1905 • Coyoacán • Mexico
Found Dead January 18, 1982 • Mexico City • Mexico
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Juan O'Gorman: Retablo de la independencia
Library of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, with murals by Juan O'Gorman.
Mexico City: Library of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
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Marcel Breuer
Hungarian architect
Giotto: Lamentation
Giotto
Italian painter
Raphael: The Grand Duke's Madonna
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Italian painter and architect
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
Hunt, Richard Morris
Richard Morris Hunt
American architect
McKim, Charles Follen
Charles Follen McKim
American architect
Jane Drew
British architect
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
German architect and painter
Beccafumi, Domenico: A Philosopher
Domenico Beccafumi
Italian painter
Cavaliere D'Arpino: Martyrdom of Saint Margaret
Cavaliere D’Arpino
Italian artist
Carlos Mérida
Guatemalan artist
Baldassarre Peruzzi: Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, Rome
Baldassarre Peruzzi
Italian painter and architect
chapel at Turku, Finland
Erik Bryggman
Finnish architect
Affonso Reidy
Brazilian architect
Place des Abbesses metro station, Paris
Hector Guimard
French architect
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Swiss architect
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius
German-American architect
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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