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1738 In Architecture
Events * William Kent is appointed to remodel Rousham House and gardens in Oxfordshire, England, "a landmark in the history of the Romantic movement." Buildings and structures Buildings * Château de Bagnolet, Paris. * San Simeone Piccolo on the Grand Canal (Venice), designed by Giovanni Antonio Scalfarotto, completed. * Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Palma, Algeciras, Spain, designed by Alonso Barranco and completed by Isidro Casaus. * Welsh Charity School, Clerkenwell, London, designed by James Steer. * Residenz Ansbach reconstruction completed by Leopold Retti. Publications * Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni – ''Description abregée de l'eglise Saint Pierre de Rome'' (Paris) Births * Matvey Kazakov, Russian neoclassical architect (died 1812) * Approximate date – John Palmer of Bath, English architect (died 1817) Deaths * January 20 – Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian architect, designer and painter (born 1659) * March 16 – George Bähr, German architect; desig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1812 In Architecture
The year 1812 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings * July 6 – The Laigh Milton Viaduct, built to carry the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway in Scotland, is officially opened.Awdry, Christopher, (1990). ''Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies''. London: Guild Publishing. * October 10 – The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London, designed by Benjamin Dean Wyatt, the fourth theatre on the site, hosts its first production. * Original Scottish Law Courts, Edinburgh, designed by Robert Reid, completed. * Custom House, Leith, Edinburgh, designed by Robert Reid, completed. * HM Prison Perth, Scotland, designed by Robert Reid, completed. * The original Breidenbacher Hof hotel in Düsseldorf, Germany, opens to the public. (It is destroyed by bombing in 1943 and later rebuilt at a different location.) * The Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, London, designed by P. F. Robinson, is completed (demolished in 1905). * St. John's Cathedral (Belize C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1738 Works
Events January–March * January 1 – At least 664 African slaves drown, when the Dutch West Indies Company slave ship ''Leusden'' capsizes and sinks in the Maroni River, during its arrival in Surinam. The Dutch crew escapes, and leaves the slaves locked below decks to die. * January 3 – George Frideric Handel's opera ''Faramondo'' is given its first performance. * January 7 – After the Maratha Empire of India wins the Battle of Bhopal over the Jaipur State, Jaipur cedes the Malwa territory to the Maratha in a treaty signed at Doraha. * February 4 – Court Jew Joseph Süß Oppenheimer is executed in Württemberg. * February 11 – Jacques de Vaucanson stages the first demonstration of an early automaton, ''The Flute Player'' at the Hotel de Longueville in Paris, and continues to display it until March 30. * February 20 – Swedish Levant Company founded. * March 28 – Mariner Robert Jenkins presents a pickled ear, which he clai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1670s In Architecture
Buildings and structures Buildings * 1670 ** Báo Quốc Pagoda, Huế, Vietnam, is built. ** Saint George Palace, Rennes, France, has its foundation stones laid. * 1671 – Weston Park, Shropshire, England, is built for Elizabeth Wilbraham. * 1672 ** Buildings by Christopher Wren in England: *** Temple Bar, London rebuilt. *** Williamson Building at The Queen's College, Oxford, completed. ** Church of Monastery of Serra do Pilar in Gaia, Portugal, consecrated. ** Construction of Castillo de San Marcos at St. Augustine, Florida, designed by Ignacio Daza, begins. * 1673 ** April – Badshahi Masjid in Lahore, Punjab, built for Aurangzeb, is completed. ** October 3 – Kintai Bridge in Iwakuni, Suō Province (modern-day Yamaguchi Prefecture), Japan, is officially completed. ** The White Horse Tavern in Newport, Rhode Island (estimated completion date) ** St Mary-le-Bow church in London, designed by Christopher Wren, rebuilding completed. ** Monastery of San Francisco, Lima, Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Smith Of Warwick
Francis Smith of Warwick (1672–1738) was an English master-builder and architect, much involved in the construction of country houses in the Midland counties of England. Smith of Warwick may refer also to his brothers, or his son. Architectural work The county town of Warwick had been devastated by a fire in September 1694, and the projects involved in its rebuilding gave the Smith brothers their first prominence, which they retained for decades by a universal reputation for scrupulous honesty and competence. Howard Colvin, plotting their known commissions on a map, remarked that nearly all of them lay within a fifty-mile radius of their mason's yard, the "Marble House" in Warwick. The antiquary the Hon. Daines Barrington noted in 1784, after viewing several Smith of Warwick houses, found "all of them convenient and handsome" despite changes in taste. Colvin summarised the elements by which a Smith house is easily recognizable: three storeys, with the central three bays empha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1666 In Architecture
Buildings and structures Buildings * 1660 – Completion of ** Moti Masjid (Pearl Mosque) in the Red Fort of Delhi. ** Teele Wali Masjid, Lucknow in the regin of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, Built in the supervision of Fidai Khan Koka. ** Tilya-Kori Madrasah in the Registan of Samarkand (begun in 1646). * 1661 – Work begins on Versailles, near Paris. * 1662 ** King Charles Court of the Greenwich Hospital in London, designed by John Webb. ** Pažaislis Monastery founded (completed in 1755). ** Coleshill House in the Vale of White Horse, England, designed by Roger Pratt, completed (begun in 1649). ** Groombridge Place in Kent, England, built Philip Packer for himself. * 1660-1663 – The arsenal of Civitavecchia designed by Gianlorenzo Bernini built * 1663–1665 – Kingston Lacy in Dorset and Horseheath Hall in Cambridgeshire, both in England and both designed by Roger Pratt, built. * 1664–1667 – Clarendon House in London, designed by Roger Pratt, built. * 1664 – Eltha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church (building)
A church, church building or church house is a building used for Christian worship services and other Christian religious activities. The earliest identified Christian church is a house church founded between 233 and 256. From the 11th through the 14th centuries, there was a wave of church construction in Western Europe. Sometimes, the word ''church'' is used by analogy for the buildings of other religions. ''Church'' is also used to describe the Christian religious community as a whole, or a body or an assembly of Christian believers around the world. In traditional Christian architecture, the plan view of a church often forms a Christian cross; the center aisle and seating representing the vertical beam with the Church architecture#Characteristics of the early Christian church building, bema and altar forming the horizontal. Towers or domes may inspire contemplation of the heavens. Modern churches have a variety of architectural styles and layouts. Some buildings designe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protestant
Protestantism is a Christian denomination, branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Reformation, Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to be growing Criticism of the Catholic Church, errors, abuses, and discrepancies within it. Protestantism emphasizes the Christian believer's justification by God in faith alone (') rather than by a combination of faith with good works as in Catholicism; the teaching that Salvation in Christianity, salvation comes by Grace in Christianity, divine grace or "unmerited favor" only ('); the Universal priesthood, priesthood of all faithful believers in the Church; and the ''sola scriptura'' ("scripture alone") that posits the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice. Most Protestants, with the exception of Anglo-Papalism, reject the Catholic doctrine of papal supremacy, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bähr
George Bähr (15 March 1666 – 16 March 1738) was a German architect. Life George Bähr was born into a poor family in Fürstenwalde (now a part of Geising, Saxony), the son of a weaver. The village priest, however, helped pay for his education, and Bähr was able to become a carpenter's apprentice in Lauenstein, Saxony. In 1690, Bähr went to Dresden to start work as a carpenter. His dream was to go to Italy and see the famous buildings there, so in his spare time he studied mechanics, calling himself both an artist and a mechanic, and designing not only castles and palaces but also sketches of organs. In 1705, aged 39, Bahr was named Dresden's City Master Carpenter, although he did not even have a master carpenter's certificate. One of Bähr's main goals was to modernise the city's churches. He believed that the existing buildings did no justice to Protestant church services in particular. His first building was the parish church in the Loschwitz area of Dresden, a building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1659 In Architecture
__TOC__ 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 comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Galli Bibiena
Francesco Galli, called Francesco da Bibiena (or da Bibbiena), a member of the theatrical Galli da Bibiena family and younger brother of Ferdinando Galli, was born at Bologna in 1659. He first studied under Lorenzo Pasinelli; but he was afterwards instructed in the school of Carlo Cignani. His knowledge of architecture and perspective was considerable; but he excelled in figures. Francesco worked at Piacenza, Parma, and Rome, and then became ducal architect at Mantua. After a stay in Genoa and Naples he was called to Vienna, where he built a large theatre. He worked successively for the Emperors Leopold I and Joseph I, and was invited to Madrid by Philip V Philip V may refer to: * Philip V of Macedon (221–179 BC) * Philip V of France (1293–1322) * Philip II of Spain, also Philip V, Duke of Burgundy (1526–1598) * Philip V of Spain Philip V ( es, Felipe; 19 December 1683 – 9 July 1746) was ..., who appointed him his principal architect. He died in 1739. Francesco wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1817 In Architecture
The year 1817 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings * Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, designed by John Soane as the first purpose-built public art gallery in England, is completed and opened. * The Second Bank of the United States, in Philadelphia, designed by William Strickland (architect), William Strickland, starts to operate. * In Nassau, Bahamas, the lighthouse on Hog Island is built, replacing that at Fort Pincastle (built in 1793 in architecture, 1793). * Church of St. James the Great, Sedgley, in the Black Country of England, designed by Thomas Lee (Jnr), Thomas Lee, is completed although not opened until 1823. * Belsay Hall in Northumberland, England, designed for himself by Sir Charles Monck, 6th Baronet, probably with John Dobson (architect), John Dobson, is completed. Publications * Thomas Rickman – ''An Attempt to discriminate the Styles of English Architecture from the Conquest to the Reformation'', the first sys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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