Caius, John
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Caius, John (1510–73). Refounder of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (1557), where he built (1560s and 1570s) the three Gates of Honour, Humility, and Virtue, remarkable for the refinement and correctness of their early
Classical detail, derived from
Serlio, and designed with the assistance of the architect and sculptor Theodore de Have,
or Haveus (fl. 1562–76), of Cleve (
Clèves), in Germany.
Bibliography
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004);
E. Roberts (ed.) (1912);
D. Watkin (1986)
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