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Arc de Triomphe and Place Charles de Gaulle Arch of Constantine Nicola Salvi: Trevi Fountain, Rome Nash, John: Marble Arch New Delhi: All India War Memorial arch Inscribed attic surmounting the main cornice of the Arch of Titus, Rome, ad 81 Arch of Titus Roman ruins of the main street and the west gate, or triumphal arch, Thamugadi, Alg. Brussels: World War I The Arch of Septimius Severus, a triumphal arch erected ad 203–205 in Rome.
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Arc de Triomphe and Place Charles de Gaulle
Arch of Constantine
Nicola Salvi: Trevi Fountain, Rome
Nash, John: Marble Arch
New Delhi: All India War Memorial arch
Inscribed attic surmounting the main cornice of the Arch of Titus, Rome, ad 81
Arch of Titus
Roman ruins of the main street and the west gate, or triumphal arch, Thamugadi, Alg.
Brussels: World War I
The Arch of Septimius Severus, a triumphal arch erected ad 203–205 in Rome.
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Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine
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Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin
French architect