In the second half of the Sixteenth Century, Sinan, the great architect who is the Michelangelo of the East, designed the massive buttresses that now help support the dome.

The great architect also designed the fine interior staircase and colonnade which connects the two courts.

The architect conceived the great square tower as the keep of a legislative " castle " ( echoing his selection of the portcullis as his identifying mark in the planning competition ), and used it as the royal entrance to the Palace and as a fireproof repository for the archives of Parliament.

You have had these plans of your university made by a great architect, native to our own American soil, who himself had the sense to adapt — not to copy in servile fashion — but to adapt the old Californian architecture to the new university uses, and so we have here a great institution of learning absolutely unique, even in its outward aspect, situated in this beautiful valley with the hills in the background, under this sky, with these buildings, and if this university does not turn out the right kind of citizenship and the right kind of scholarship, I shall be more than disappointed.

The great Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, a covered passage that connects Piazza del Duomo, Milan to the square opposite of La Scala opera house, was built by architect Giuseppe Mengoni between 1865 and 1877 to celebrate Vittorio Emanuele II, first king of reunited Italy.

Making a trip to Paris in 1665, Wren studied the architecture, which had reached a climax of creativity, and perused the drawings of Bernini, the great Italian sculptor and architect.

One of Wren's friends, another great scientist and architect and a fellow Westminster Schoolboy, Robert Hooke said of him " Since the time of Archimedes there scarce ever met in one man in so great perfection such a mechanical hand and so philosophical mind.

She employed the great architect Ineni, who also had worked for her father, her husband, and for the royal steward Senemut.

Between 1210 and 1220, the fourth architect oversaw the construction of the level with the rose window and the great halls beneath the towers.

The west front, with the great Wheathampstead window, was cracked and leaning, and Grimthorpe, never more than an amateur architect, designed the new front himself — attacked as dense, misproportioned and unsympathetic: " His impoverishment as a designer ... evident "; " this man, so practical and ingenious, was utterly devoid of taste ... his great qualities were marred by arrogance ... and a lack of historic sense ".

The campus, roughly bounded between 31st and 35th streets, Michigan Avenue and the Dan Ryan Expressway, was designed by modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, " one of the great figures of 20th-century architecture ", who chaired the IIT School of Architecture from 1938 to 1958.

Amongst the most important monuments of Saumur are the great Château de Saumur itself which stands high above the town, and the nearby Château de Beaulieu which stands just 200 metres from the south bank of the Loire river and which was designed by the architect Jean Drapeau.

At some point in the 5th century BC, Iktinos, the great architect of the Parthenon, built the Telesterion big enough to hold thousands of people.

Amongst the most important monuments are the great Château de Saumur itself which stands high overlooking the town, and the nearby Château de Beaulieu which stands just 200 metres from the south bank of the Loire river ; designed by the renowned architect Jean Drapeau, it is recognised for its light and elegant architecture.

The first of the great Ionic temples was the Temple of Hera on Samos, built about 570 BC – 560 BC by the architect Rhoikos.

British general J. F. C. Fuller, architect of the first great tank battle at Cambrai, and his contemporary, B. H. Liddell Hart, were amongst the most prominent advocates of mechanization and motorization of the army in Britain.

Mayasura was a great architect who soon constructed the Maya assembly hall – a gigantic palance for the Pandavas in Indraprastha.

He was also a great architect.

The dream of one great patron and one great architect has almost become the symbol of a whole nation.

Designed by landscape architect C. P. Broerse ; following the ideas of the great Dutch naturalist and conservationist Jac.

After the church spire collapsed in 1700, amateur architect and Dean of Christ Church Henry Aldrich designed a new church ; it is thought, however, that on some of the later features of the church, the work of Nicholas Hawksmoor, one of Britain's great Baroque architects, is to be found, namely on the tower and spire.

* Hermann von Helmholtz, great German polymath, invented the ophthalmoscope ( 1851 ) and published important work on physiological optics, including colour vision ( 1850s ).

" In 2003, The New York Times described him as " one of the great British historians of his age, an unapologetic Communist and a polymath whose erudite, elegantly written histories are still widely read in schools here and abroad.

Other great encyclopedic writers include the polymath scientist Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) and his Dream Pool Essays, the agronomist and inventor Wang Zhen ( fl.

The Gaussian gravitational constant ( symbol k ) is an astronomical constant first proposed by German polymath Carl Friedrich Gauss in his 1809 work Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientum (" Theory of Motion of the Celestial Bodies Moving in Conic Sections around the Sun "), although he had already used the concept to great success in predicting the orbit of Ceres in 1801.

( This is a classic text by the great 19th century polymath, Jamgon Kongtrul the Great, with contemporary commentaries by Kalu Rinpoche, Deshung Rinpoche, and Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

Leone gains credit for one great breakthrough in the western genre still followed today: in traditional western films, many heroes and villains looked alike as if they had just stepped out of a fashion magazine, with clearly drawn moral opposites, even down to the hero wearing a white hat and the villain wearing a black hat ( except for the most successful of the ' traditional western cowboys ' - Hopalong Cassidy, who wore a black outfit upon a pale horse ).

According to Christopher Frayling's book Something to do with Death, Leone knew a great deal about the American Old West.

They included Giorgio Ronconi, who created the title role in Verdi's Nabucco ; Felice Varesi, who created the title roles in Macbeth and Rigoletto as well as Germont in La traviata ; Antonio Superchi, the originator of Don Carlo in Ernani ; Francesco Graziani, who was the original Don Carlo di Vargas in La forza del destino ; Leone Giraldoni, the creator of Renato in Un ballo in maschera and the first Simon Boccanegra ; Enrico Delle Sedie, who was London's first Renato ; Adriano Pantaleoni, renowned for his performances as Amonasro in Aida as well as other Verdi roles at La Scala, Milan ; Francesco Pandolfini, whose singing at La Scala during the 1870s was praised by Verdi ; Antonio Cotogni, a much lauded singer in Milan, London and Saint Petersburg, the first Italian Posa in Don Carlos and later a great vocal pedagogue, too ; and Giuseppe Del Puente, who sang Verdi to acclaim in the United States.

Clint Eastwood was among the first of many American actors to adopt this persona, which he used to great effect in his Western roles, especially the Spaghetti Westerns made with Sergio Leone, where he played a similar " Man with No Name " character like Mifune did in Yojimbo.

A great many of both her and this daughter's descendants now live in England and Sierra Leone while a separate group of them, the aristocratic Randle family of Lagos, remains prominent in contemporary Nigeria.

There is to note that German dubbings tends to take great liberty when translating scripts and these changes are not necessarily implied by the original creators, including Leone himself.

500 BC ) reported an encounter a tribe of savage men and hairy women in what may have been Sierra Leone ; their interpreters called them " Gorillae ", a story which much later gave rise to the name of the gorilla species and could indeed have related to a great ape.

Along with working together with director Sergio Leone, Gonzalo Gavira worked with William Friedkin, Alejandro Jodorosky ( The Holy Mountain ) and the great Cantinflas, who on many occasions classified Mr. Gavira as a genius.

Rice requires a great deal of technical knowledge for its successful cultivation, and South Carolina and Georgia planters were willing to pay premium prices for slave labor brought from what they called the " Rice Coast " of West Africa, the traditional rice-growing region stretching from what is now Senegal and Gambia in the north down to Sierra Leone and Liberia in the south.

Ronconi instigated a long line of great Italian baritones that continued into modern times ; but the most esteemed of his contemporaries / immediate successors were probably Felice Varesi, Leone Giraldoni, Francesco Graziani and Antonio Cotogni, all of whom were outstanding Verdi singers.

Nizhny Novgorod has a great and extraordinary art gallery with more than 12, 000 exhibits, an enormous collection of works by Russian artists such as Viktor Vasnetsov, Karl Briullov, Ivan Shishkin, Ivan Kramskoi, Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Isaak Iljitsch Lewitan, Vasily Surikov, Ivan Aivazovsky, there are also greater collections of works by Boris Kustodiev and Nicholas Roerich, not only Russian art is part of the exhibition it include also a vast accumulation of Western European art like works by David Teniers the Younger, Bernardo Bellotto, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Pieter de Grebber, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and lot more.

His first opera, the comedy L ' errore amoroso, was presented, with great success, under the protection of the Marquis del Vasto, Giovanni Battista d ' Avalos, the winter of 1737 in the Teatro Nuovo of Naples.

Born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France, Pierre Rode traveled to Paris at the age of 13 and soon became a favourite pupil of the great Giovanni Battista Viotti who found the boy so talented that he charged him no fee for the lessons.

These matters were considered of great importance by artist-theorists such as Leon Battista Alberti, Leonardo da Vinci, and Giorgio Vasari.

His final work, Interpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities, Architects, published in 1992, synthesizes the history of architectural ideas and projects through discussions of the great centres of architectural innovation in Italy ( Florence, Rome, and Venice ), key patrons from the middle of the fifteenth century to the early sixteenth century, and crucial figures such as Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi, Francesco di Giorgio, Lorenzo de ’ Medici, Bramante, Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione and Giulio Romano.

Regular singers of the period included Manuel Garcia and his daughter Maria Malibran, Clorinda Corradi, Giuditta Pasta, Isabella Colbran, Giovanni Battista Rubini, Domenico Donzelli and the two great French rivals Adolphe Nourrit and Gilbert Duprez — the inventor of the C from the chest.

In the 1630s, under the supervision of architects Giovanni Battista Crescenzi and Alonso Carbonell, several building were erected in great haste, two of which are still standing: the " Casón del Buen Retiro " which served as a ballroom, and the building that today houses the military museum, the Museo del Ejército, which includes the grand entrance hall, the " Salón de Reinos " ( Hall of Kingdoms ), its wall decorated with paintings by Velázquez and Zurbarán and frescoes by Luca Giordano.