• Giovanni Battista Borra (27 December 1713 – November 1770) was an Italian architect, engineer and architectural draughtsman. Borra was born in Dogliani...
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    design was adapted and made more uniform by Thomas Pitt assisted by Giovanni Battista Borra and was finished in 1779. The interiors of the new state apartments...
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    removed before demolition, including the Music Room, designed by Giovanni Battista Borra for the ninth Duke's wife Mary Blount, now displayed in the Victoria...
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    for Neoclassical architecture. To accomplish this, he employed Giovanni Battista Borra from July 1750 to c. 1760. Also at this time, several statues and...
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    of a fever early in their expedition) and an Italian draftsman Giovanni Battista Borra. Their primary goal was to explore the Troad and locate the key...
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    Square, London, dated 1756, designed by Matthew Brettingham and Giovanni Battista Borra A section of a wall from the Glass Drawing-Room of Northumberland...
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    very fond of French and Italian fashion and styles, employing Giovanni Battista Borra to decorate that residence. The newly built Music Room was a particularly...
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    designs there were executed after his death by his pupils, including Giovanni Battista Sacchetti. Some writers noting that Juvarra's early training was in...
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  • Bernardo Antonio Vittone, Giovanni Battista Borra, Giuseppe Bernardi, fr:Antoine Hérisset, it:Filippo Giovanni Battista Nicolis di Robilant among other...
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  • Anhalt-Dessau, German prince of the House of Ascania (d. 1781) 1713 – Giovanni Battista Borra, Italian architect and engineer (d. 1770) 1714 – George Whitefield...
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