Biography Category
(kl d p r ´) (KEY) , 1613–88, French architect, scientist, and physician. One of the most eminent French scholars of his time, he advanced the stud...
(p vz´n r) (KEY) , 1902–83, English architectural historian, b. Germany. Influenced by Heinrich Wölfflin, Pevsner contended in his many works that...
(shärl p rsy ´) (KEY) , 1764–1838, French architect. He won (1786) the Grand Prix de Rome, and in 1794 he became associated with Pierre François ...
(j vän´n bät-t ´stä p rän ´z ) (KEY) , 1720–78, Italian etcher and architect. The greater part of his life was spent in Rome, where he made ...
( güst´ p r ´) (KEY) , 1874–1954, French architect. He left the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris to join the family construction firm with his b...
(py ´j n) (KEY) , 1762–1832, English writer on medieval architecture, b. France. His writings and drawings furnished a mass of working material for...