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1743 In Architecture
Buildings and structures Buildings * Construction begins on the Basilica of the Vierzehnheiligen, in Bavaria, designed by Johann Balthasar Neumann. * Dresden Frauenkirche, in Dresden, Germany, designed by George Bähr, is completed. * Eltzer Hof in Mainz completed * September 29 – Church of the Gesuati on the Giudecca canal in Venice, designed by Giorgio Massari in 1724, is consecrated. Births * April 13 – Thomas Jefferson, American President and amateur architect (died 1826) Deaths * May 22 – Thomas Archer, English Baroque architect (born 1668) References Architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ... Years in architecture 18th-century architecture {{Architecture-hist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po River, Po and the Piave River, Piave rivers (more exactly between the Brenta (river), Brenta and the Sile (river), Sile). In 2020, around 258,685 people resided in greater Venice or the ''Comune di Venezia'', of whom around 55,000 live in the historical island city of Venice (''centro storico'') and the rest on the mainland (''terraferma''). Together with the cities of Padua, Italy, Padua and Treviso, Italy, Treviso, Venice is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), which is considered a statistical metropolitan area, with a total population of 2.6 million. The name is derived from the ancient Adri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1743 Works
Events January–March * January 1 – The Verendrye brothers, probably Louis-Joseph and François de La Vérendrye, become the first white people to see the Rocky Mountains from the eastern side (the Spanish conquistadors had seen the Rockies from the west side). * January 8 – King Augustus III of Poland, acting in his capacity as Elector of Saxony, signs an agreement with Austria, pledging help in war in return for part of Silesia to be conveyed to Saxony. * January 12 ** The Verendryes, and two members of the Mandan Indian tribe, reach the foot of the mountains, near the site of what is now Helena, Montana. ** An earthquake strikes the Philippines * January 16 –Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury turns his effects over to King Louis XV of France, 13 days before his death on January 29. * January 23 –With mediation by France, Sweden and Russia begin peace negotiations at Åbo to end the Russo-Swedish War. By August 17, Sweden cedes all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1660s 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] |
Thomas Archer
Thomas Archer (1668–1743) was an English Baroque architect, whose work is somewhat overshadowed by that of his contemporaries Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor. His buildings are important as the only ones by an English Baroque architect to show evidence of study of contemporary continental, namely Italian, architecture. Life Archer spent his youth at Umberslade Hall in Tanworth-in-Arden in Warwickshire, the youngest son of Thomas Archer, a country gentleman, Parliamentary Colonel and Member of Parliament, and Ann Leigh, daughter of the London haberdasher, Richard Leigh. The exact date of Archer's birth is unknown, but can be inferred from the two documentary sources that mention his age. One is an entry in the Oxford University register recording his matriculation at Trinity College on 12 June 1686, aged 17; the other, his epitaph, survives in the parish church of Hale, Hampshire. If these records are accurate, he must have been born between 12 June 1668 and 22 May 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1826 In Architecture
The year 1826 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Buildings and structures Buildings opened * January 30 – The Menai Suspension Bridge over the Menai Strait in Wales, designed by Thomas Telford. * December 17 – Helsinki Old Church, designed by Carl Ludvig Engel. Buildings completed * Cathedral of Chihuahua, Mexico. * The Bank of England in London, designed by Sir John Soane. * Cumberland Terrace in London, designed by John Nash and John Thompson. * Alexander Nevsky Memorial Church in Potsdam, a very early example of Byzantine Revival architecture designed by Vasily Stasov. * Stadttempel, Vienna, Austria. * Sofienbad, Vienna, Austria. Awards * Grand Prix de Rome – Léon Vaudoyer Births * April 11 – Thomas Worthington, English architect based in Manchester (died 1909) * July 18 – Edward Habershon, English architect (died 1900) * August 2 — Thomas Alexander Tefft, American architect based in Providence, Rhode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was previously the nation's second vice president of the United States, vice president under John Adams and the first United States Secretary of State, United States secretary of state under George Washington. The principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence, Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, motivating Thirteen Colonies, American colonists to break from the Kingdom of Great Britain and form a new nation. He produced formative documents and decisions at state, national, and international levels. During the American Revolution, Jefferson represented Virginia in the Continental Congress that adopted the Declaration of Independence. As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1724 In Architecture
The year 1724 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events *Work recommences on the Salon d'Hercule at Versailles under Jacques Gabriel, after a break caused by the death of King Louis XIV of France in 1715. Buildings and structures Buildings completed * Cannons, a house in Edgware, Middlesex, England, built for James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos with façades designed by James Gibbs. * Maids of Honour Row, terraced houses on Richmond Green, Richmond, Surrey, England. * Chester Courthouse in Pennsylvania (North America). * Shire Hall, Monmouth, Great Britain. * Church of St. Edmund, Dudley, England. * St. Stephanus, Bork, Germany. * Cluj Jesuit Church in Transylvania (Romania). * Stavropoleos Monastery in Bucharest, Romania. * Rebuilt Sam Poo Kong temple in Semarang, Java. Awards * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jean-Pierre Le Tailleur de Boncourt. Births *June 8 – John Smeaton, English civil engineer (died 1792) *October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Massari
Giorgio Massari (13 October 1687 – 20 December 1766) was an Italian late-Baroque architect from Venice. He designed the Villa Lattes near Treviso in 1715, the church of Santo Spritito in Udine, the church of Santa Maria della Pace 1720–46 in Brescia. In Venice, he often worked closely with Tiepolo in planning interior decoration of palaces. Among his masterpieces are the Chiesa dei Gesuati (1726–43) located in Dorsoduro, Venice and the Palazzo Grassi-Stucky (1749). In the latter, Massari executed a traditional elegant marble-fronted Grand Canal palace facade, with Baroque rhythms and variations to the arrangement of bays, disrupting the classical simplicity. Massari also designed the scenographic staircase entry to Villa Giovanelli, Noventa Padovana. Massari finished some works by Longhena, for example, the heavily decorated Ca' Rezzonico, also found on the Grand Canal. Some of Massari's design were completed by his pupil Bernardino Maccarucci Bernardino Maccarucci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gesuati
Santa Maria del Rosario (St. Mary of the Rosary), commonly known as I Gesuati, is an 18th-century Dominican church in the Sestiere of Dorsoduro, on the Giudecca canal in Venice, northern Italy. The classical style building has a well-lit interior and is exceptional in preserving its original layout and Rococo decoration intact. The church and almost all its sculpture and paintings were created within a thirty-year period: construction began in 1725, the church was consecrated in 1743, and the last sculptural decoration was in place by 1755. Background The religious order of the Jesuates, formally the ''Clerici apostolici Sancti Hieronymi'' was founded in Siena in the 14th century and had a presence in Venice by 1390. Its members were known as ''I poveri Gesuati'' (the poor Jesuates) because they frequently called on the name of Jesus; they had no connection with the Jesuits (''I Gesuiti''), whose church is in the north of Venice. They acquired some wealth from donations and legac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainz
Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main (river), Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-west, with Mainz on the left bank, and Wiesbaden, the capital of the neighbouring state Hesse, on the right bank. Mainz is an independent city with a population of 218,578 (as of 2019) and forms part of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region. Mainz was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans in the 1st century BC as a military fortress on the northernmost frontier of the empire and provincial capital of Germania Superior. Mainz became an important city in the 8th century AD as part of the Holy Roman Empire, capital of the Electorate of Mainz and seat of the Elector of Mainz, Archbishop-Elector of Mainz, the Primate (bishop), Primate of Germany. Mainz is famous as the birthplace of Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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