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1650s in architecture

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Buildings and structures

Buildings

  • 1650
    • The Marian column in Prague is erected (destroyed 1918).
    • Talar Ashraf palace in Isfahan, Persia, is built.
    • (approximate date) The Khaju Bridge in Isfahan is built.
  • 1651
    • Collegiate Church of Saint Magdalena and Saint Stanisław in Poznań (Poland) is started (completed c.1701).
    • Karamon of Ueno Tōshō-gū shrine in Tokyo is built.
  • 1652 – Church of the Resurrection, Kostroma.
  • 1653
    • The Taj Mahal mausoleum at Agra in India (begun in 1630 and probably designed by Ustad Ahmad Lahauri) is completed.
    • The Radziwiłł Palace, Vilnius, is completed.
  • 1654 – Construction of Skokloster Castle in Sweden to the design of Caspar Vogel begins (completed 1676).
  • 1656
    • The Jama Masjid, Delhi, is completed.
    • The colonnade of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is started by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
  • 1658
    • Terraced houses at 52–55 Newington Green in London, perhaps by Thomas Pidcock, are completed.
    • St Nicholas Abbey (plantation house) in Saint Peter, Barbados, is begun.
  • 1659
    • Trashigang Dzong in Bhutan is built.
    • Ca' Pesaro on the Grand Canal (Venice) is started by Baldassarre Longhena (completed 1710).
    • Saleh Kamboh Mosque in Lahore is founded.
    • Tomb of Nadira Begum in Lahore is started.

Births

  • 1650: December 1 (bapt.) – William Talman, English architect, landscape designer and collector (died 1719)
  • 1651: March 2 – Carlo Gimach, Maltese architect, engineer and poet (died 1730)
  • 1651: September 3 – Roger North, English lawyer, biographer and amateur of the arts (died 1734)
  • 1654: May 23 – Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, Swedish baroque architect (died 1728)
  • 1655: July 7 – Christoph Dientzenhofer, Bavarian baroque architect (died 1722)
  • 1656: July 20 – Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Austrian baroque architect (died 1723)

Deaths

  • 1652: June 21 – Inigo Jones, English architect and theatrical designer (born 1573)
  • 1655: July 15 – Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (born 1570)

References

References

  1. {{NHLE. (1954)
  2. "Christoph Dientzenhofer – German architect".
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