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AND THEIR PRINCIPAL WORKS.

1145
AFTER CHRIST.
1711. Great hnll or theatre at Prague for Charles VI, His three si)ns, Giuseppe,
Alessandro, and Antonio, practised as architects.
257. Giuseppe Gali.i Bibiena of ParmaAn amphitheatre at Prague for 8,000 persons.
Some large buildings in Silesia
;
works at Dresden and Berlin.
258. Alessandro Gai.i.i Bibiena of Parma. Great theatre, and the church of tlie
Jesuits at Mannheim.
259. Antonio Galli Bibiena of Parma.Theatrical decorations
;
various works in Italy,
"Vienna, and in Hungary. Published
"
Varie Opere." Theatres at Pistoja, Siena,
Treviso, Pavia, and Bologna. Enlar^ied tliat of La Pergola at Florence.
260. FiiANCESCO Galli Bibiena of Italv, brother of Ferdinando. Tiieatrical decorations
;
rlaing school, &c., at Mantua
;
theatres at Vienna, Nancy, Verona, and Rome.
261- Giambattista Sacchetti of Turin.

Royal Palace, Madrid.


262. John Wood of Bath.Large iinprovements at Bath the Crescent, Circus, Queen
S(]uare, &c. ;
Prior Park for Mr. Alien; Buckland Park for Sir John Tlirock-
morton
;
Exchange at Bristol.
263. Jean Nicholas Servandoni of France.
Facade of the church of St. Sulpice at
Paris; Staircase of the Hotel du Cardinal Auvergne; round chapel of M. de Live;
Rotunda with twelve Coripthian columns, for Marshal de Richelieu
;
parish chtircli
of Coulanges in Bourgogne
;
and many other works, besides theatres and theatrical
decoration--, and designs for foreign princes.
264. George Dance, sen., of London.^Mansion House
;
the churches of St. Luke's, Old
Street: St. Leonard's, Shoreditcli; and St. Botolph. Aldgate
;
all in London.
265 LuiGi Vanvitelli of Italy.Palace at Caserta, near Naples.
266. Jacques Fran(;ois Blondel of Rouen, in France Opened the first private academy
of architecture; design for the Imperial Acadeiny at Moscow; street and square
opposite the cathedral at Rouen
;
other works both there and at Strasbourg; im-
provements at the city of Metz, including the round church of the Royal Abliey of
St. Louis, the Episcopal Palace, facade of the building occupied by the Parliament,
the Hotel de Ville, Corps de Garde, &c. Improvements of the city of Cambray
;
and many country houses in France and Germany, and in Flanders. Publislied
-'
Anhitecture Fran^oise
"
and a
"
Cours d' Architecture."
267. John Bkettinciiam of England. Finished Holkham Hall, Norfolk
;
Norfolk
House, St. James's Square.
268. Robert Furze Brettingham of England.Erected the gaols at Reading, Hert-
ford, Poole, Downpatrick, and Northampton; Winchester House, St. James's
Square; No.
9,
Berkeley Square; INIaidenhead Bridge; and made many alterations
at noblemen's mansions in the country.
269. Ferihnando Fuga of Florence Completed the Fabbrica della Consulta on the
Quirinal
;
the great addition to the wing of the Pontifical Palace at the corner of
the Via delle Quattro Fontaiie; church of Sta. Maria dell' Orazione; completed
the Palazzo Petroni and the Palazzo Corsini; all at Rome. Church and nunnerv of
Sta. Caterina della Ruota at .\quila; restored the church of Sta. Maria Maggiore;
enlarged the hospital of Sto. Spirito in Sassia
; and other works at Rome. The
great hospital and the public cemetery, the Palazzo Giordani, and the very large
Palazzo Caramanica; commenced the Granili, to contain a granary^ artillery arsenal,
and storehouse
;
and other works at Naples.
270. ^I. Aug. Simonetii of Italy. Museo Pio Clementino in the Vatican at Rome.
271. Jacques Ange Gabriel of France. Continued his fatlier's works. The Ecole JNIili-
taire and Champ de Mars
;
and Garde !!\Ieuble, all at Paris ; theatre at Versailles
;
chateauat C()mi)iegne ; additions to that at Choisy; and north and west facades to
the court of the Louvre.
272. Jean Rodolphe Perronet of France. Director of the bridges and roads of France
;
bridge of Neuilly, and mnny others.
SV*?. Jacques Germain Soufflot of Irancy, near Aiixerre, in France.Hospital, Exchange,
Concert- rooiu, and Theatre, all at Lyons; facade, nave, and towers of the church of
St. (ienevieve, at Paris.
27'1. Sir William Chambers of Ripon, in England.

Visited China, and jjuhlished


works on Chinese architecture and Oriental gardening. P^^goda and other builii-
ings at Kew
;
villa at Roehampton for Earl of Besborougli
;
Duddingston, nciW
Edinburgh, for Lord Ahercorn; and mansions for other noblemen
;,
Casino near
Dublin for Lord Charlemont; Somerset House, in the Strand, L(?ndon. Pub-
lislied
'*
The Decorative Part of Civil Architecture."
275. Robert Adam of Kirkaldic, in Scotland.Screen at the Admiralty in London;
Kedlestoiie for Lord Scarsdale; Register Office at Edinburgh; Infirmary at Glas-
gow; the Edinburgh University; Luton House; Lansdownc House, Berkeley

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