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1713 In Architecture
The year 1713 in architecture involved some significant events. Events * February 25 – Death of Frederick I of Prussia pauses work on Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin. Buildings and structures Buildings * Old State House (Boston) in Massachusetts, possibly designed by Robert Twelves, is completed. * Church of San Benedetto, Catania in Sicily is completed. * Spandauische Kirche, Berlin, designed by Philipp Gerlach, is consecrated. * Schelf Church at Schwerin in the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, is rebuilt. * Vizianagaram fort in South India is built. Births * January 22 – Marc-Antoine Laugier, French architectural historian (died 1769) * July 18 – Gaetano Matteo Pisoni, Ticinese architect (died 1782) * July 22 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French neoclassical architect (died 1780) * October 30 – Giuseppe Antonio Landi, Bolognese neoclassical architect and ceiling painter working in Brazil (died 1791) * December 27 – Giovanni Battista Borra, Italian architect and eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick I Of Prussia
Frederick I (german: Friedrich I.; 11 July 1657 – 25 February 1713), of the Hohenzollern dynasty, was (as Frederick III) Elector of Brandenburg (1688–1713) and Duke of Prussia in personal union ( Brandenburg-Prussia). The latter function he upgraded to royalty, becoming the first King in Prussia (1701–1713). From 1707 he was in personal union the sovereign prince of the Principality of Neuchâtel (german: Fürstentum Neuenburg). Biography Family Born in Königsberg, Frederick was the third son of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg by his father's first marriage to Louise Henriette of Orange-Nassau, eldest daughter of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange and Amalia of Solms-Braunfels. His maternal cousin was King William III of England. Upon the death of his father on 29 April 1688, Frederick became Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia. Right after ascending the throne Frederick founded a new city southerly adjacent to Dorotheenstadt and named it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques-Germain Soufflot
Jacques-Germain Soufflot (, 22 July 1713 – 29 August 1780) was a French architect in the international circle that introduced neoclassicism. His most famous work is the Panthéon in Paris, built from 1755 onwards, originally as a church dedicated to Saint Genevieve. Biography Soufflot was born in Irancy, near Auxerre. In the 1730s he attended the French Academy in Rome, where young French students in the 1750s would later produce the first full-blown generation of Neoclassical designers. Soufflot's models were less the picturesque Baroque being built in modern Rome, as much as the picturesque aspects of monuments of antiquity. After returning to France, Soufflot practiced in Lyon, where he built the ''Hôtel-Dieu'', like a chaste riverside street facade, interrupted by the central former chapel, its squared dome with illusionistic diminishing coffers on the interior. With the Temple du Change, he was entrusted with completely recasting a 16th-century market exchange b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1645 In Architecture
__TOC__ Buildings and structures Buildings * The Taj Mahal in Agra, India, is under construction, probably by Ustad Ahmad Lahori, to a commission by Shah Jahan. The mosque and ''jawab'' in the complex are completed in 1643. * 1640 ** Børsen in Copenhagen, designed by Lorenz van Steenwinckel, Lorentz and Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger and begun in 1619, is completed. ** 59–60 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London (later known as Lindsey House), probably designed by Inigo Jones and begun about 1638, is completed. ''Survey of London: volume 3: St Giles-in-the-Fields, pt I: Lincoln's Inn Fields'' (1912), pp. 96–103. Retrieved 2015-03-17. ** :File:Butterwalk hdr.jpg, Butterwalk, Dartmouth, Devon, Dartmouth, England, is completed. * 1641 ** Tron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Antonio Viscardi
Giovanni Antonio Viscardi (27 December 1645 – 9 September 1713) was a Swiss architect of the baroque, who worked mostly in Bavaria. Biography Giovanni Antonio Viscardi was born in San Vittore, Grisons. He was descended from a family which provided several architects who had worked in Bavaria, Styria and Mainz. He started his career as a Superintendent to Enrico Zuccalli before 1675; in 1678 he was appointed master mason and in 1685 chief architect. Dismissed in 1689, Viscardi worked as an independent architect until he became Zuccalli's successor as chief architect of the Bavarian court in 1706 with the Austrian occupation of Bavaria; he died, aged 67, in Munich, while still in office. Chief works * Mariahilfkirche at Freystadt Abbey (1700–08) * New church of St. Mary of Fürstenfeld Abbey (1701-?) (completed in 1747).) * Schäftlarn Abbey * Expansion of Benediktbeuern Abbey * Expansion of the Palace of Nymphenburg The Nymphenburg Palace (german: Schloss Nymphen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1788 In Architecture
The year 1788 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings * Felix Meritis in Amsterdam (Netherlands), designed by Jacob Otten Husly, is opened. * De Kleine Komedie in Amsterdam, designed by Abraham van der Hart, is completed. * Théâtre Graslin in Nantes (France), designed by Mathurin Crucy, is opened. * Theater in der Josefstadt, Vienna is established. * Theatre Royal in Richmond, North Yorkshire, England, is built. * Sofia Albertina Church in Scania (Sweden), designed by Carl Hårleman before his death in 1753, is inaugurated. * Capilla de Ánimas in Santiago de Compostela (Spain) is completed. * St. Spyridon Church, Peroj (Croatia) is completed. * St Gregory's Church, Preshome (Scotland), designed by Father John Reid, is built. * Façade of St. Anne's Church, Warsaw, by Chrystian Piotr Aigner, is completed. * Admiralty House, London, designed by Samuel Pepys Cockerell, is opened. * Palazzo Beneventano del Bosco in Syracuse, Sicily, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Stuart (1713–1788)
James Stuart may refer to: Government and politics * James VI and I (1566–1625), James VI of Scotland and James I of England * James II of England (1633–1701), James VII of Scotland * James Fitz-James Stuart, 2nd Duke of Berwick (1696–1738), Jacobite and Spanish nobleman * James Fitz-James Stuart, 3rd Duke of Berwick (1718–1787), Jacobite * James Francis Edward Stuart (1688–1766), "the Old Pretender", claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland * James Stuart, Duke of Cambridge (1663–1667), second son of the Duke of York and his first wife, Anne Hyde * James Stuart (1681–1743) (died 1743), British Army officer, courtier and politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayr Burghs 1734–41 * James Stuart (1774–1833), British businessman and politician, director of The East India Company, MP for Huntingdon 1824–31 * James Stuart (1775–1849), Scottish politician * James Stuart-Wortley (Conservative politician) (1805–1881), British Conservative Party politic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1785 In Architecture
The year 1785 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * May 20 – The United States Land Ordinance of 1785 determines the layout of townships in the western territories. * July 17 – A groundbreaking ceremony is held for the Pella Palace in Russia, designed by Ivan Starov; it will never be completed. Buildings and structures Buildings completed * May 19 – Plaza de Toros de Ronda, Spain. * September 7 – Notre-Dame de Guebwiller inaugurated. * Attingham Park, Shropshire, England, designed by George Steuart. * Chertsey Bridge over the River Thames in England, designed by James Paine and Kenton Couse. * Marble Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, designed by Antonio Rinaldi. * Church of St. Stephen Harding in Apátistvánfalva. * Odigitrievsky Cathedral in Ulan Ude, Russia. * Palace of Iturbide in Mexico City, designed by Francisco Antonio de Guerrero y Torres. * Grand Palace, Bangkok, completed. * Rebuilding of Babolovo P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi
Ivan Grigorovich-BarskyBrumfield, William Craft: Gold in azure: one thousand years of Russian architecture. D.R. Godine, 1983. P. 20. or Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi (russian: Иван Григорьевич Григорович-Барский, ) (born 1713 in Litkovychi in a family from Bar, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth - died 1791 in Kyiv, Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian-born Imperial Russian architect who worked in the Late Cossack Baroque style. He was a graduate of the Kiev-Mohyla Academy, and designed many buildings and churches in Kyiv and elsewhere. He is also known as a brother of Vasil Grigorovich-Barsky. Buildings designed in Kyiv by him are the church and belfry of Saint Cyril's Monastery and Church (1750–1760), the Church of the Holy Protectress (1766), the Church of Saint Nicholas on the Bank (1772–1775), the belfry of Saints Peter and Paul Monastery (1761–1773), the Old Bursa of the Kyivan Mohyla Academy (1778), the Gostynyi Dvor warehouse (1760s), the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1786 In Architecture
The year 1786 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Buildings and structures Buildings completed *Casa de Esteban de Luca, Buenos Aires, Argentina. *Golghar, Patna, India, built by Captain John Garstin. *Henley Bridge, designed by William Hayward (bridge designer), William Hayward of Shrewsbury, who died before construction was completed. *Schloss Bellevue in Berlin, Germany, designed by Michael Philipp Boumann. *St. Catherine's Cathedral, Kherson, Ukraine, built by General Ivan Gannibal.http://russian-church.ru/viewpage.php?cat=kherson&page=7 Russian Church (Russian)]. Accessed 11 December 2013. Awards * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Charles Percier. Births *January 23 – Auguste de Montferrand, French Neoclassical architect who worked primarily in Russia (died 1858 in architecture, 1858) *May 7 – John Watts (military architect), John Watts, Irish military architect (died 1873 in architecture, 1873) Deaths *February 28 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gwynn (architect)
John Gwynn (1713 – 28 February 1786) was an English architect and civil engineer, who became one of the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768. He advocated greater control over planning in London, for which he produced detailed suggestions. His buildings include Magdalen Bridge and the Covered Market in Oxford, and several bridges over the River Severn. Life Gwynn was born and died in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. He worked initially as a carpenter, but then decided to practice as a (largely self-taught) architect and town planner, moving to London, where he became a friend of Samuel Johnson. In 1749, when Sir Christopher Wren's drawings were sold, Gwynn obtained Wren's plan for the rebuilding of the City of London, and published it, adding some comments of his own. Seventeen years later, in 1766, he published ''London and Westminster Improved'', It was passed in June of the same year. in which he criticised the loose control over building in the West End, sayi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1770 In Architecture
The year 1770 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings * Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England, designed by Stiff Leadbetter and John Sanderson, completed * Shire Hall, Nottingham, England, designed by James Gandon and Joseph Pickford, completed * New National Mint of Bolivia in Potosí completed * Palace of Inquisition in Cartagena, Viceroyalty of New Granada, completed about this date * Liria Palace in Madrid, designed by Ventura Rodríguez, built about this date * Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, probably designed by Manuel Alves Setúbal, consecrated * Church of Santissimo Nome di Maria e degli Angeli Custodi, Genoa, begun in 1712, completed about this date * Church of La Magdalena, Getafe, Spain, designed by Alonso de Covarrubias and Juan Gómez de Mora and begun in the 16th century, completed * Wooden Saint Parascheva Church, Desești, Romania, built * New Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Battista Borra
Giovanni Battista Borra (27 December 1713 - November 1770) was an Italian architect, engineer and architectural draughtsman. Life Borra was born in Dogliani. Studying under Bernardo Antonio Vittone from 1733 to 1736 (producing 10 plates for his teacher's ''Istruzione elementari per indirizzo de'giovani allo studio dell'architettura civile'', published in Lugano in 1760), in 1748 he published a work of his own. This was a handbook on buildings' stability, practical in tone. He met Robert Wood in Rome, and joined his 1750-51 antiquarian expedition to Asia Minor and Syria as its architectural draughtsman before returning with Wood to England. There he used his sketchbooks (now in the library of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, London) to produce the original drawings (now in the Royal Institute of British Architects) for Wood's ''The Ruins of Balbec'' and ''The Ruins of Palmyra'', and from 1752 to 1760 carried out commissions for English patrons. These works and their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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