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1769 In Architecture
The year 1769 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings * Second Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm in Sweden, designed by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, is completed * Blackfriars Bridge in London, designed by Robert Mylne, opens to the public (demolished in the 1860s) * St James' Church in Bath, England, designed by John Palmer of Bath, is completed (begun in 1768) * Church of St Philip and St James at Mittelstrimmig in the Rhineland, perhaps designed by Paul Stehling, is completed * St Clement's Church, Moscow is completed * Work on Syon House, Middlesex, England, to the design of Robert Adam, ceases * Reconstruction of the Collegiate Church of Saint Michael at Vydubychi Monastery in Kiev to the design of M. I. Yurasov is completed * Teatro Bibiena (''Teatro Scientifico dell'Accademia di Mantova'') in Mantua, Lombardy, designed by Antonio Galli Bibiena, is opened Births * August 4 – Vasily Stasov, Russian architect (died 1848) Dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kina Slott 1763 , a trade fair for the photographic and imaging industries in Cologne
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Robert Adam
Robert Adam (3 July 17283 March 1792) was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (1689–1748), Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him. With his older brother John, Robert took on the family business, which included lucrative work for the Board of Ordnance, after William's death. In 1754, he left for Rome, spending nearly five years on the continent studying architecture under Charles-Louis Clérisseau and Giovanni Battista Piranesi. On his return to Britain he established a practice in London, where he was joined by his younger brother James. Here he developed the "Adam Style", and his theory of "movement" in architecture, based on his studies of antiquity and became one of the most successful and fashionable architects in the country. Adam held the post of Architect of the King's Works from 1761 to 1769. Robert Adam was a leader of the first phase of the classical revival in En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1769 Works
Events January–March * February 2 – Pope Clement XIII dies, the night before preparing an order to dissolve the Jesuits.Denis De Lucca, ''Jesuits and Fortifications: The Contribution of the Jesuits to Military Architecture in the Baroque Age'' (BRILL, 2012) pp315-316 * February 17 – The British House of Commons votes to not allow MP John Wilkes to take his seat after he wins a by-election. * March 4 – Mozart departs Italy, after the last of his three tours there. * March 16 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville returns to Saint-Malo, following a three-year circumnavigation of the world with the ships '' La Boudeuse'' and '' Étoile'', with the loss of only seven out of 330 men; among the members of the expedition is Jeanne Baré, the first woman known to have circumnavigated the globe. She returns to France some time after Bougainville and his ships. April–June * April 13 – James Cook arrives in Tahiti, on the ship HM Bark ''End ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1697 In Architecture
Buildings and structures Buildings * 1690 ** The Sindone Chapel in Turin, Piedmont, designed by Guarino Guarini is completed. ** The Barrage Vauban, designed by Vauban and built by Jacques Tarade in Strasbourg, France, is completed * 1690–1700 – Two Baroque palaces in Vilnius, Sapieha Palace and Slushko Palace, designed by Pietro Perti, are erected. * 1689–1691 – Swallowfield Park, near Reading, Berkshire, England, designed by William Talman, is built. * 1691–1697 – Branicki Palace, Białystok, Poland, designed by Tylman van Gameren, is built. * 1692 ** St. Kazimierz Church, Warsaw, Poland, designed by Tylman van Gameren, is completed. ** Theatine Church, Munich, Bavaria, designed by Agostino Barelli in 1662, is substantially completed to the design of Enrico Zuccalli. * 1694 ** The Potala Palace in Lhasa is completed by construction of the Potrang Marpo ('Red Palace'). ** The Radziejowski Palace in Nieborów, Poland, designed by Tylman van Gameren, is built. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Flitcroft
Henry Flitcroft (30 August 1697 – 25 February 1769) was a major English architect in the second generation of Palladianism. He came from a simple background: his father was a labourer in the gardens at Hampton Court and he began as a joiner by trade. Working as a carpenter at Burlington House, he fell from a scaffold and broke his leg. While he was recuperating, the young Lord Burlington noticed his talent with the pencil, and by 1720 Flitcroft was Burlington's draughtsman and general architectural assistant, surveying at Westminster School for Burlington's dormitory, and superintending at the site at Tottenham House. Working life in the inner circle that was driving the new Palladian architecture was an education for Flitcroft. Flitcroft redrew for publication the drawings for ''The Designs of Mr. Inigo Jones,'' published by William Kent in 1727, under Burlington's patronage and supervision. In May 1726 Burlington got his protégé an appointment at the Office of Works, where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1848 In Architecture
The year 1848 in architecture involved some significant events. Events * Joseph-Louis Lambot develops ferrocement, the forerunner of reinforced concrete. * Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill publishes ''History of Architecture from the Earliest Times'', the first history of architecture to be published in the United States. Buildings and structures Buildings * April 8 – Railway stations in Newmarket#Newmarket (1848 station), Newmarket railway station in Suffolk, England is opened. * May 1 – Stamford railway station in Lincolnshire, England, designed by Sancton Wood, is opened. * June 19 – Monkwearmouth Station Museum, Monkwearmouth railway station in north-east England, designed by Thomas Moore, is opened. * October – The Palm house at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (London), designed by architect Decimus Burton and iron-founder Richard Turner (iron-founder), Richard Turner, is completed and opened. * October 9 – Stoke-on-Trent railway station in north Staffordshire, En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasily Stasov
Vasily Petrovich Stasov (Russian: Васи́лий Петро́вич Ста́сов; 4 August 1769 – 5 September 1848) was a famous Russian architect, born into a wealthy noble family: his father, Pyotr Fyodorovich Stasov, came from one of the oldest aristocratic families founded in the 15th century by the 1st Duke Stasov Dmitri Vasilevich and his mother, Anna Antipyevna, came from the prominent Priklonsky family. Biography Stasov was born in Moscow. He extensively travelled in France and Italy, where he became professor at the St Luke Academy in Rome. On his return home, he was elected to the Imperial Academy of Arts (1811). One of his early works, the Gruzino estate near Novgorod, was built for Count Alexey Arakcheyev in the 1810s and was completely destroyed during World War II. While developing guidelines for other architects, Stasov advocated making even the most trivial of buildings—barracks, storehouses, stables—look imposing and monumental. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Galli Bibiena
The Galli–Bibiena family, or Galli da Bibiena (also spelled "Bibbiena"), was a family of Italian artists of the 17th and 18th centuries, including: "Ferdinando Galli Bibiena Online" (overview), John Malyon, ''Artcyclopedia'', 2005, Artcyclopedia.com webpage: "Bibiena, Galli da, Family" (history), ''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', 18-November-2006, Britannica.com webpage: EB-Bibienas Galli de Bibiena collection at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, webpage: "Baroque Scenography: The Galli Bibiena Family" "Galli–Bibiena, Ferdinando" (history), ''Encyclopedia of Austria'', 2006, Aeiou-Austria webpage: : has dates, Farnese dynasty, travel to Barcelona for Karl VI. "Artists' Biographies: Galli–Bibiena alli da Bibiena" ''artnet - The art world online'', NY, 2006, webpage: an-GBibiena ("artnet" is a trademark of artnet Worldwide Corporation). * father, Giovanni Maria Galli da Bibiena (1625–1665) * daughter Maria Oriana Galli Bibiena (1656 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mantua
Mantua ( ; it, Mantova ; Lombard language, Lombard and la, Mantua) is a city and ''comune'' in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the Province of Mantua, province of the same name. In 2016, Mantua was designated as the Italian Capital of Culture. In 2017, it was named as the European Capital of Gastronomy, included in the Eastern Lombardy District (together with the cities of Bergamo, Brescia, and Cremona). In 2008, Mantua's ''centro storico'' (old town) and Sabbioneta were declared by UNESCO to be a World Heritage Site. Mantua's historic power and influence under the Gonzaga family has made it one of the main artistic, culture, cultural, and especially musical hubs of Northern Italy and the country as a whole. Having one of the most splendid courts of Europe of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and early seventeenth centuries. Mantua is noted for its significant role in the history of opera; the city is also known for its architectural treasures and artifacts, elegant palaces, and the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teatro Bibiena
The Teatro Bibiena di Mantova (also known as, among others, the Teatro Scientifico, Teatro Accademico or Teatrino della Accademia Filarmonica) was made by Antonio Galli da Bibbiena in 1767-1769 and decorated in 1773-1775 with a facade of Piermarini designed by Paolo Pozzo (1741–1803). Constructed for the Royal Virgilian Academy of Science and Arts (now " Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana"), the theatre in Mantua was designed in late Baroque or early Rococo style by Antonio Galli Bibiena and erected between 1767 and 1769. With a bell-shaped floorplan and four rows of boxes, it followed the new style of theatres then in vogue. It was intended to host both theatre productions and concerts, and scientific discourses and conventions. Bibiena also provided the monochrome frescoes in the interior. The theatre is now considered to be his most important work. It was opened officially on 3 December 1769. A few weeks later, on 16 January 1770, thirteen-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiev
Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by population within city limits, seventh-most populous city in Europe. Kyiv is an important industrial, scientific, educational, and cultural center in Eastern Europe. It is home to many High tech, high-tech industries, higher education institutions, and historical landmarks. The city has an extensive system of Transport in Kyiv, public transport and infrastructure, including the Kyiv Metro. The city's name is said to derive from the name of Kyi, one of its four legendary founders. During History of Kyiv, its history, Kyiv, one of the oldest cities in Eastern Europe, passed through several stages of prominence and obscurity. The city probably existed as a commercial center as early as the 5th century. A Slavs, Slavic settlement on the great trade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vydubychi Monastery
Vydubychi Monastery ( ua, Видубицький монастир ''Vydubyts'kyi monastyr'') is an historic monastery in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. During the Soviet period it housed the NANU Institute of Archaeology. History The monastery was established between 1070 and 1077 by Vsevolod, son of Yaroslav the Wise. It was a family cloister of Vsevolod's son Vladimir Monomakh and his descendants. The monastery, and the neighbourhood in present-day Kyiv where it is located, was named after an old Slavic legend about the pagan god Perun and the Grand Prince Vladimir the Great of Kyiv. The word "Vydubychi" comes from the word ''Vydobychi'' → ''Vydobych'' → ''Vydobech'' ( ua, Видобичі → Видобич → Видобеч) which means "to swim up", "emerge from water". The legend has it that Vladimir ordered the wooden figures of Perun (the Thunder God) and other pagan gods dumped into the Dnieper River during the mass Baptism of Kyiv. The disheartened Kyivans, thou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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