• article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1726. February – Lavinia Fenton makes her stage debut as Monimia in Thomas Otway's...
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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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    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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    front, which had to be relocated. The church was not completed until 14 July 1726, sixty years after the beginning of its construction. The original bell tower...
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    Gulliver's Travels (category 1726 novels)
    Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising...
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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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    in the writings of 18th century Anglo-Irish writer Jonathan Swift. In the 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels, he portrays the conflict between sects of Lilliputians...
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    Spanish Renaissance architecture emerged in the late 15th century as Renaissance ideals reached Spain, blending with existing Gothic forms. Rooted in Renaissance...
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    la Maison Royale de France ... Troisieme Edition 1726 Anthony Gerbino, François Blondel: Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution, pp. 18–21...
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  • [Telemann]) Alexandre de Villeneuve Conversations en manière de sonates, solo sonatas, Op. 1 (Paris) Conversations en manière de sonates, trio sonatas, Op. 2 (Paris)...
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  • Sonatas, Op. 2 Joseph Bodin de Boismortier 5 Sonates en trio suivies d'un concerto, Op. 37 2 Sérénades en trois parties, Op. 39 6 Sonates suivies d'un nombre...
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  • Boismortier 6 Sonates dont la derniere est en trio, Op. 50 6 Sonatas for Flute and Violin, Op. 51 4 Balets de village en trio, Op. 52 Michel Corrette – Premier...
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    Poznań, Toruń and Warsaw were established under Augustus II the Strong. In 1726, there was a riot for two days after a Protestant clergyman was killed by...
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    Jacques-François Blondel (category French architecture writers)
    Blondel (1683–1756), architect of Rouen. Jacques-François was in Paris by 1726 and continued his studies with Gilles-Marie Oppenord, from whom he acquired...
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  • for 5 Flutes, Op. 15 6 Suites à 2 Muzettes, Op. 17 André Chéron – Sonates en trio, Op. 1 Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia – Harpsichord Sonata in G major...
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  • for Pardessus de viole, Livre 5 Joseph Bodin de Boismortier 6 Gentillesses en 3 parties, Op. 33 6 Sonates à quatre parties, Op. 34 6 Suites de pièces, Op...
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    Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral, Les Cayes (category Roman Catholic churches completed in 1726)
    faithful Catholics decided to build a church and a rectory that was finished in 1726. The cathedral follows the Latin or Roman rite and is the mother church of...
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  • (1992) 4: 1016. Elling, Christian (2019). Rome : the biography of her architecture from Bernini to Thorvaldsen. Place of publication not identified: Routledge...
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  • Réaumur publishes his work on metallurgy, L'Art de convertir le fer forge en acier, which describes how to convert iron into steel. April 5 (Easter Sunday)...
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    Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (category People from Saint-Germain-en-Laye)
    1959, p. 75 Sackville-West 1959, p. 181 Sackville-West 1959, p. 224 Anselme 1726, p. 188. Stokes 1913, p. 99. Cartwright 1900, p. 70 Cartwright 1900, p. 69...
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  • Albert: "André Michel Ramsay – Sa vie" – Chapter II of Fénelon au XVIIIe siècle en France. Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1917. Charles James Longman (1936). The...
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  • Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of December 9, 1726". Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostril...
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    de San Vicente (1726–1727) Ermita de Nuestra Señora del Puerto (1716–1718) Cuartel del Conde-Duque (Guardias de Corps) (iniciado en 1717) Puente de Toledo...
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    time to cover areas like philosophy, sciences, linguistics, and medicine In 1726 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz wrote Idea of Arranging a Narrower Library. Martin...
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    scientific instruments like a celestial globe known as the Kugel globe (1694 / 1726) in painted, gilded and varnished papier-mâché on a wooden core. Other papier-mâché...
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    Scarpatetti: Die Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen. Codices 1726–1984 (14.–19. Jahrhundert). Beschreibendes Verzeichnis. Verlag am Klosterhof...
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    ambassador of Great Britain to France (French: L'Ambassadeur britannique en France) was the foremost diplomatic representative in France of the Kingdom...
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    Claudio Ambrosini (born 1948), composer and conductor Giovanni Gallo (fl. 1726 – c. 1749), Italian choreographer of ballets within operas Giovanni Bellini...
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    back, it scratched the flaking paint. A first restoration was attempted in 1726 by Michelangelo Bellotti, who filled in missing sections with oil paint then...
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    Sicilian Baroque is the distinctive form of Baroque architecture which evolved on the island of Sicily, off the southern coast of Italy, in the 17th and...
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