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  2. Architectural painting - Wikipedia

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    In the Renaissance, architecture was used to emphasize the perspective and create a sense of depth, like in Masaccio's Holy Trinity from the 1420s. In Western art, architectural painting as an independent genre developed in the 16th century in Flanders and the Netherlands, and reached its peak in 16th and 17th century Dutch painting.

  3. Frank Lloyd Wright - Wikipedia

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    These collections included more than 23,000 architectural drawings, some 44,000 photographs, 600 manuscripts, and more than 300,000 pieces of office and personal correspondence. It also contained about 40 large-scale architectural models, most of which were constructed for MoMA's retrospective of Wright in 1940. [146]

  4. Architectural drawing - Wikipedia

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    An architectural drawing or architect's drawing is a technical drawing of a building (or building project) that falls within the definition of architecture.Architectural drawings are used by architects and others for a number of purposes: to develop a design idea into a coherent proposal, to communicate ideas and concepts, to convince clients of the merits of a design, to assist a building ...

  5. List of Frank Lloyd Wright works - Wikipedia

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    Library displayed at The Allentown Art Museum, PA Hallway displayed at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN: Observation Platform for Island Woolen Mills: None: S.143: Baraboo: Wisconsin: 1912: Disputed attribution. [53] Demolished in the early 1970s: William B. Greene House: 1203: S.176: Aurora [54] Illinois: 1912: Later addition by Harry F ...

  6. List of works by Edwin Lutyens - Wikipedia

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    Columbarium combining Byzantine Revival with Arts and Crafts and with classical architectural lines, in the form of a 12 feet (3.7 m) square building of red-brick, red-tile, glass-tile and stonework. [41] [42] Lutyen's earliest mausoleum design, recognised as an embodyment of the point at which he fully incorporated classical architecture in ...

  7. Vitruvian Man - Wikipedia

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    Inspired by the writings of the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius, the drawing depicts a nude man in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and inscribed in both a circle and square. It was described by the art historian Carmen C. Bambach as "justly ranked among the all-time iconic images of Western civilization". [1]

  8. America's Favorite Architecture - Wikipedia

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    America's Favorite Architecture" is a list of buildings and other structures identified as the most popular works of architecture in the United States. In 2006 and 2007, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) sponsored research to identify the most popular works of architecture in the United States.

  9. Relativity (M. C. Escher) - Wikipedia

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    The architectural structure seems to be the centre of an idyllic community, with most of its inhabitants casually going about their ordinary business, such as dining. There are windows and doorways leading to park-like outdoor settings. All of the figures are dressed in identical attire and have featureless bulb-shaped heads.