christopher wren

     

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Trivia about christopher wren

  • A form of Baroque was applied in his 17th century design of London's St. Paul's Cathedral
  • A little birdie told me in 1669 Charles II gave him the important architectural job of Surveyor of the King's Works
  • This British architect's epitaph is "If you seek his monument, look around you"
  • In 1657 he was appointed professor of astronomy at London's Gresham College
  • William Talman, a country house architect of the late 1600s, was bitterly jealous of this genius
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Holding a compass with his plans for the west end of St. Paul's Cathedral, this man was 79 when his portrait was painted in 1711

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