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    Giacomo Leoni (1686 – 8 June 1746), also known as James Leoni, was an Italian architect, born in Venice. He was a devotee of the work of Florentine Renaissance...
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  • century), Italian poet Giacomo Leone (born 1971), Italian long-distance runner Giacomo Leoni (1686–1746), Italian architect Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837)...
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    of the 16th century. Modifications were made to it in the 1720s by Giacomo Leoni, who retained some of the Elizabethan features and added others, particularly...
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    and the Blenheim Pavilion, both designed by the Venetian architect Giacomo Leoni.:15 The landscape designer Charles Bridgeman was also commissioned to...
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  • Executive Franco Leoni (1864–1949), Italian opera composer (L'Oracolo) Frank Leoni (born 1968), American college baseball coach Giacomo Leoni (1686–1746),...
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    building was built for Genoese merchant Ignazio Corpi by Italian architect Giacomo Leoni between 1873 and 1882. The property was bought by the United States...
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    estate duty. Construction of the house, designed by Italian architect Giacomo Leoni, began about 1730, and the interiors were finished by continental sculptors...
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    language edition was published in London by the Italian-born architect Giacomo Leoni in 1715–1720. The treatise is divided into four books: The first book...
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    by Giacomo Leoni and published from 1715 onwards; De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building), by Leon Battista Alberti, translated by Giacomo Leoni and...
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    Dance won a competition over designs solicited from James Gibbs and Giacomo Leoni, and uninvited submissions by Batty Langley and Isaac Ware. Construction...
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    Leone Leoni (c. 1509 – 22 July 1590) was an Italian sculptor of international outlook who travelled in Italy, Germany, Austria, France, Spain and the...
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  • Angelo Italia Stefano Ittar Filippo Juvarra Paolo Labisi Giulio Lasso Giacomo Leoni Baldassarre Longhena Martino Longhi the Younger Carlo Maderno Domenico...
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    According to a plan by Giacomo Leoni, the width of the doorway is 16.6 feet (4.8 m)...
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    The Palazzo Leoni Montanari is a late Baroque palace located in Contra’ San Corona number 25 in central Vicenza in the Veneto region of Italy. It now...
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    Bartoli), French, Spanish, and English. An English translation was by Giacomo Leoni in the early eighteenth century. Newer translations are now available...
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    protégé William Kent; Isaac Ware; Henry Flitcroft and the Venetian Giacomo Leoni, who spent most of his career in England. Other prominent architects...
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    court. At right angles to these walls stand the arches designed by Giacomo Leoni c. 1740; these were formal entrances to the gardens, they now lead to...
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    Monmouth, and was reconstructed in the Palladian style circa 1720 by Giacomo Leoni. It is built on what used to be an area of Ruislip Moor, which is where...
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    architect of Bramham is unknown, although it is speculated that Giacomo Leoni was involved (Leoni was responsible for the rebuilding of Lyme Park in an Italianate...
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    the 1720s. The principal architect was Giacomo Leoni, initially assisted by the painter Sir James Thornhill. Leoni refaced the house with Portland stone...
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    building was first erected as a home in the early 1720s. Designed by Giacomo Leoni, the house was initially commissioned by John Bligh M.P., but was sold...
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  • Cosmas Damian Asam, German Baroque architect and painter (died 1739) Giacomo Leoni, Venetian-born architect (died 1746) 1687: January 27? – Balthasar Neumann...
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    subsequently bought by Sir Thomas Bootle, MP for Liverpool, who commissioned Giacomo Leoni to rebuild the house as the finest Palladian house in the county. Built...
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    legible but the inscription faces the boundary Louis Charles d'Hervilly Giacomo Leoni, architect Maurice Margarot, reformer Thomas Mazzinghi, father of Joseph...
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    of a temple at his Buckinghamshire home, Cliveden, by the architect Giacomo Leoni later that year. Hamilton died at his home at Albemarle Street in London...
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    who, with William Kent, designed Chiswick House. The Italian-born Giacomo Leoni also constructed Palladian houses in England. The Queen's House, Greenwich...
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    converted into flats. It was built between 1735–36 to the designs of Giacomo Leoni for Darcy Lever. The three-storey house is mainly brick built with ashlar...
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    The only other notable Italian architect in London at the time was Giacomo Leoni. The two architects shared a classicising bent that appealed to the...
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    Palladian manner. In 1720 he tried his hand at architecture. Along with Giacomo Leoni, he designed Moor Park, for which he also painted the entrance hall...
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    previous house, which had been designed in 1739 by Italian architect Giacomo Leoni. The property passed down within the Biddulph family until in 1894 it...
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