• The year 1757 in architecture involved some significant events. Frederiks Hospital, Copenhagen, is opened. Middlesex Hospital, London, is opened. Vorontsov...
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  • didacticism in art, design, architecture and landscape: "Du Didactisme en Architecture / On Didacticism in Architecture". (2019). In C. Cucuzzella, C...
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    Church of Santa Prisca de Taxco (category Roman Catholic churches completed in 1759)
    Alarcón, in the southern state of Guerrero, Mexico, built between 1751 and 1759. It is located on the east side of the main plaza of Taxco. The construction...
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    1510. Also on the Place de l'Hôtel de Ville is the former Corn Exchange (1759–1761) (Halle de Grains). This ornately decorated 18th-century building was...
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    William Cockerill (category 1759 births)
    Industria: architecture industrielle en Belgique (in French, Dutch, and English). Mauad Editora Ltda. ISBN 9782870092842. "Cockerill, William (1759-1832)"...
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    Church architecture refers to the architecture of Christian buildings, such as churches, chapels, convents, and seminaries. It has evolved over the two...
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    Neoclassical architecture, sometimes referred to as Classical Revival architecture, is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that...
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    Granada Cathedral (category Renaissance architecture in Granada)
    information Del arte árabe en España A nook By Rafael Contreras y Muñoz dealing with Arabs and Spanish art and architecture, pages 1–7. Information on...
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    destruction at the hands of the British Army of General James Wolfe in the 1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham, a pivotal battle in the Seven Years' War...
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    Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the late 16th century and gradually spread across Europe. It...
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    bə-ROK, US: /bəˈroʊk/ bə-ROHK, French: [baʁɔk]) is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished...
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    with Greece in 1864). Sir James Campbell 1814–1816 Sir Thomas Maitland (1759–1824) 1815–1823 Sir Frederick Adam (1781–1853) 1823–1832 Sir Alexander Woodford...
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  • Middleton, AA Files 19 1990 ‘Chambers, W. A treatise on civil architecture, London 1759’ in Sir William Chambers: Architect to George III, Published on...
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    Pope John XXII (died 1334), a 14th-century Gothic edifice. It was moved in 1759, damaged during the Revolution, and restored to its original position in...
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    Farnesio; 20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788) was King of Spain in the years 1759 to 1788. He was also Duke of Parma and Piacenza, as Charles I (1731–1735);...
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    The architecture of Denmark has its origins in the Viking Age, revealed by archaeological finds. It was established in the Middle Ages when first Romanesque...
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    Rococo (redirect from Rococo (architecture))
    as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding...
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    control access to the Gulf of St. Lawrence through the Cabot Strait. In 1759, he besieged Quebec for three months from Île d'Orléans. Then, Wolfe stormed...
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    the Puente Nuevo ("New Bridge") of Ronda, that was originally started in 1759 but remained unfinished. This became one of his best-known works. He also...
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  • 50 Franz Ignaz Beck – 6 Symphonies, Op. 3 Michel Corrette – 6 Symphonies en Quatuor sur les Noëls Francesco Geminiani – The Second Collection of Pieces...
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    The Moses and Aaron Church (Dutch: Mozes en Aäronkerk, pronounced [ˈmoːzəs ɛn aːˈʔaːrɔŋkɛr(ə)k]) in the Waterlooplein neighborhood of Amsterdam, the Netherlands...
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    developed complex social structures, including pre-contact monumental architecture, organized cities, city-states, chiefdoms, states, kingdoms, republics...
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    Growth of the neoclassical style in the Austrian Netherlands took place from 1759 during the reign of the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and the governorship...
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    Lauritz de Thurah (category 1759 deaths)
    1759), was a Danish architect and architectural writer. He became the most important Danish architect of the late baroque period. As an architectural...
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    aristocratic friends, making it an essential fashion item for Parisiennes. In 1759, a French scientist named Navarre presented a new design to the French Academy...
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  • attributed to Jommelli) Jean-Marie Leclair – [3] Ouvertures et [3] sonates en trio, Op. 13 (Paris). Ouverture No. 3 arranged from Ouverture to Scylla et...
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    One of the longest chapters of Laurence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandy (1759–1767), "Slawkenbergius' tale", takes place in Strasbourg. An episode of Matthew...
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  • Sonatas), Op. 2 (Paris: Le Clerc, Mme Boivin) Armand-Louis Couperin – Sonates en pièces de clavecin avec accompagnement de violon ad libitum, Op. 2 (Paris)...
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    for the Castilian monarchs, and its architecture reflects the grandeur and is a notable example of "power architecture": the impenetrable walls, the deep...
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    Sacra di San Michele (category Gothic architecture in Piedmont)
    Giacomo Millo [it] (1742–1757), cardinal vacant (1757–1759) Carlo Alberto Guidobono Cavalchini (1759–1774), cardinal vacant (1774–1777) Giacinto Sigismondo...
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