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Claude Audran
painter and decorator; b. March 27, 1639, at Lyons; d. January 4, 1684.
The family of Audran furnished five generations of artists represented by sixteen individuals, most of them engravers. Claude Audran was a pupil of Noël Coypel and assisted Errard in the decoration of Versailles, the Louvre, and the Tuileries. He assisted Charles Lebrun in many important undertakings. The more famous engraver, Gérard Audran, was a younger brother.


John Mylne (Milne) (III)
architect.
Mylne is the name of a large family of builders and architects who were master masons to the kings of Scotland. John (I) was appointed by James III about 1481. John (II) (d. 1621) and John (III) (d. 1657) succeeded to the office. John (IV) (b. 1611, d. December 24, 1667) succeeded his father, John (III), as principal master mason, and was made master mason of the city of Edinburgh.


John Mylne (Milne) (IV)
architect.
Mylne is the name of a large family of builders and architects who were master masons to the kings of Scotland. John (I) was appointed by James III about 1481. John (II) (d. 1621) and John (III) (d. 1657) succeeded to the office. John (IV) (b. 1611, d. December 24, 1667) succeeded his father, John (III), as principal master mason, and was made master mason of the city of Edinburgh.


Plan of the Church of Sta. Maria della Pace at Rome, built in the end of the fifteenth century by order of Sixtus IV from the designs of Baccio Pintelli.
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