The concept of “architecture parlante” was developed in this century by an architect who designed an ambitious ideal town centred on a salt factory. A church designed in this century depicts the Ten Commandments on bronze doors and the Last Judgement on its pediment and is called La Madeleine. In this century, architects like Robert Adam were influenced by Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s vedute drawings depicting Roman landmarks. A building from this century that uses a Greek cross plan with domes on each ambulatory and Corinthian orders in its portico was designed by Jacques-Germain Sufflot. That building from this century became a mausoleum for national heroes and was modelled on a Roman temple. For 10 points, name this century during which Neoclassicism developed with buildings such as the Panthéon in Paris. ■END■
ANSWER: 18th century [or 1700s] (The architect in the first line is Claude Nicolas Ledoux.)
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