Biography Category
(h s ´ b n ´t ch r-r g ´rä) (KEY) , 1665–1725, Spanish architect and sculptor. A native of Madrid, he won fame for his design (1689) of the gre...
(k ´tr l, k tr l´) (KEY) , 1913–, British author and archaeologist, grad. King Edward’s Grammar School, Birmingham. He was a commentator, writer...
(zhäN fräNswä´ shäNpôlyôN´) (KEY) , 1790–1832, French linguist and Egyptologist. He is considered the founder of the science of Egyptology. ...
1723–96, English architect, b. Gothenburg, Sweden. He traveled extensively in the East Indies and in China making drawings of gardens and buildings,...
d. 1729, Scottish architect, who, in England, became one of the initiators of the Neo-Palladian movement. Campbell’s most important contribution to ...
1892–1957, British archaeologist, b. Australia. An Oxford graduate, he taught at the Univ. of Edinburgh (1927–46) and the Univ. of London (1946–...