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1420s In Architecture
__TOC__ Buildings and structures Buildings * 1417–1420 – Ulugh Beg Madrasah in Samarkand is built. * 1419–1427 – Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence (first stage), designed by Filippo Brunelleschi. * 1420 ** Khan Jaqmaq, Damascus, is completed. ** Forbidden City of Beijing, China, is completed. ** Temple of Heaven in Beijing is completed. * 1421 – Traditional foundation date of Larabanga Mosque in northern Ghana. * 1424 – Start of final stage of construction of Doge's Palace, Venice. * 1425 – Rebuilding of Sherborne Abbey choir, England, begins. * c. 1425 – Rebuilding of St. Leonhard, Frankfurt, choir, perhaps by Madern Gerthener. * 1428–1430 – Ca' d'Oro, Venice, built by Giovanni and his son Bartolomeo Bon for the Contarini family of doges. * 1427 – Harmondsworth Great Barn in England is completed. * 1428 – Church of Sant'Agostino, Amatrice, Kingdom of Naples, is built. * 1429 – Ulugh Beg Observatory in Samarkand is completed. Births * c. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1410s In Architecture
__TOC__ Buildings and structures Buildings * 1410 ** In Prague, at the Old Town Hall, the Astronomical Clock (Orloj) is built. ** In Heidelberg, Germany: the Heiliggeistkirche is begun, but the nave takes until 1441 to complete. ** In Kościan (Poland), the monastery and Mary Magdalene and St Nicolas church are built, with the consent of the King of Poland Władysław Jagiełło. * 1411 ** In England, construction of the Guildhall, London, is begun. ** In the Electorate of Saxony, the church of St. Moritz, Halle, is consecrated. * 1412 – At Seoul in the Korean kingdom of Joseon, the original Changdeokgung palace is completed. * 1413 – In Dubingiai (Lithuania), a new masonry castle by Vytautas the Great is built. * 1418 – Brunelleschi and Ghiberti submit plans for the dome of Florence Cathedral. * 1419 ** Brunelleschi designs the loggia of the Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence. ** The Jiqinglou Fujian ''tulou'' in Ming dynasty China is built. Births Deaths * 141 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghana
Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and Togo in the east.Jackson, John G. (2001) ''Introduction to African Civilizations'', Citadel Press, p. 201, . Ghana covers an area of , spanning diverse biomes that range from coastal savannas to tropical rainforests. With nearly 31 million inhabitants (according to 2021 census), Ghana is the List of African countries by population, second-most populous country in West Africa, after Nigeria. The capital and List of cities in Ghana, largest city is Accra; other major cities are Kumasi, Tamale, Ghana, Tamale, and Sekondi-Takoradi. The first permanent state in present-day Ghana was the Bono state of the 11th century. Numerous kingdoms and empires emerged over the centuries, of which the most powerful were the Kingdom of Dagbon in the north and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1480s In Architecture
__TOC__ Events * 1482 – Francesco di Giorgio Martini, ''Trattato di architettura, ingegneria e arte militare'' ("Treatise of Architecture, Engineering and Military Art") is completed after this date * 1485 – Leon Battista Alberti, '' De Re Aedificatoria'' (written 1443–52) becomes the first printed work on architecture Buildings and structures Buildings * 1480 – Ancienne Douane (Colmar) completed. * c.1480 – Great Barn, Hales Hall, Loddon, Norfolk, England, completed. * 1481 – Palazzo Loredan on the Grand Canal (Venice), designed by Mauro Codussi, is begun (completed 1509). * 1482–1489 – Ginkaku-ji ("Temple of the Silver Pavilion") in Kyoto, Japan, is constructed. * 1483–1488 – Church of Mariä Krönung (Lautenbach) consecrated and completed. * 1483 – The Changgyeonggung of Korea is completed. * 1484–1489 – Koyunbaba Bridge in Anatolia is constructed. * 1484 – Palazzo Medici in Florence, begun by Michelozzo c.1444/45, is completed. * 1486 – Rebui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guiniforte Solari
Guiniforte Solari (c. 1429 – c. 1481), also known as ''Boniforte'', was an Italian sculptor, architect and engineer. Born in Milan, he was the son of the architect Giovanni Solari, and brother of Francesco Solari. Guiniforte was chief engineer of the Duchy of Milan during his life. He is especially remembered for his disputes with Filarete, who had been called by Duke Francesco I Sforza to modernize the Lombard architecture according to the new Renaissance styles. However, Solari represented the local Gothic tradition. Buildings which he worked on include the Duomo, the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie and the Ospedale Maggiore in Milan, and the Certosa of Pavia. Also attributed to him is the Portinari Chapel, in the church of Sant'Eustorgio, Milan. He died in Milan around 1481. His son Pietro Pietro is an Italian masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: People * Pietro I Candiano (c. 842–887), briefly the 16th Doge of Venice * Pietro Tribuno (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulugh Beg Observatory
The Ulugh Beg Observatory is an observatory in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Built in the 1420s by the Timurid astronomer Ulugh Beg. Islamic astronomers who worked at the observatory include Al-Kashi, Ali Qushji, and Ulugh Beg himself. The observatory was destroyed in 1449 and rediscovered in 1908. History Rise and decline Ulugh Beg, the son of Shāhrukh and grandson of sultan Teymūr, became the ruler of Samarkand in the 15th century AD. Ulugh Beg was very skilled in mathematics and astronomy. He taught many important astronomers; one example is the famous Ali Qushji. Many historians have tried to accurately identify dates of the events that have occurred during the Samarkand or Ulugh Beg Observatory. The differences in interpreting dates and citations of historical sources have cause inaccuracies and neglection of some events during this time. In Jamashīd al-Kāshī’s letters to Ulugh Beg’s father, you can see Ulugh Beg’s visit to the Maragha Observatory had an effect on U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of Sant'Agostino, Amatrice
Sant'Agostino ( it, Chiesa di Sant'Agostino) is a ruined Roman Catholic church in Amatrice, province of Rieti, Lazio, Italy. It was built in 1428 and it was dedicated to Saint Nicholas, but it was modified over subsequent centuries and rededicated to Saint Augustine of Hippo. Most of the church was destroyed in a series of earthquakes in 2016–17. History The church was built by the Augustinians in 1428, and it was originally dedicated to Saint Nicholas. A plaque on the façade states that the building's architect was Giovanni dell'Amatrice. The church was built near the ''Porta Carbonara'' and Amatrice's town walls. The church was rededicated to Saint Augustine of Hippo in the 18th century. In 1580 and again in 1781, the interior and part of the old apse were destroyed by fire, and repair works continued until the 19th century. In 1845, the vault was considered to be unsafe so it was demolished. At this point, the church's interior was whitewashed. The small bell, which weigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harmondsworth Great Barn
Harmondsworth Great Barn (also known as Manor Farm Barn) is a medieval barn on the former Manor Farm in the village of Harmondsworth, in the London Borough of Hillingdon, England. It is north-west of fields and the A4 next to Heathrow Airport. Built in the early 15th century by Winchester College, it is the largest timber-framed building in England and is regarded as an outstanding example of medieval carpentry. It was described by the English poet John Betjeman as the "Cathedral of Middlesex". A similar though smaller barn is part of the Manor Farm complex in Ruislip. The barn was briefly in royal ownership but passed into the hands of three families who continued to use it for agricultural purposes until as late as the 1970s. It was subsequently owned by a property development company which redeveloped the farm complex. After the company went bankrupt in 2006, the barn was bought by property speculators betting on its compensation value if the nearby Heathrow Airport was expan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contarini
The House of Contarini is one of the founding families of Venicehttps://archive.org/details/teatroaraldicose02tett, Leone Tettoni. ''Teatro araldico ovvero raccolta generale delle armi ed insegne gentilizie delle piu illustri e nobili casate che esisterono un tempo e che tutora fioriscono in tutta l'italia'', 1841. pagina 578 - 591 and one of the oldest families of the Italian Nobility. In total eight Doges to the Republic of Venice emerged from this family, as well as 44 Procurators of San Marco, numerous ambassadors, diplomats and other notables. Among the ruling families of the republic, they held the most seats in the Great Council of Venice from the period before the Serrata del Maggior Consiglio when Councillors were elected annually to the end of the republic in 1797. The Contarini claimed to be of Roman origin through their patrilineal descendance of the Aurelii Cottae, a branch of the Roman family Aurelia, and traditionally trace their lineage back to Gaius Aurel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartolomeo Bon
Bartolomeo Bon (also spelled Buon; died after 1464) was an Italian sculptor and architect from Campione d'Italia. His career spans the transition between Venetian Gothic architecture and the rather late start of Venetian Renaissance architecture. Together with his father Zane Bon, he worked in Venice: they finished the decoration of the famous Gothic Ca' d'Oro (1424–1430) and the marble door of the Basilica di Santa Maria dei Frari. They were also entrusted with the construction of the ''Porta della Carta'' (1438–1442) at the Palazzo Ducale. Bartolomeo alone worked at a portal of the Scuola Grande di San Marco (a lunette is now housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London), the portal of San Polo San Polo ( vec, San Poło) is the smallest and most central of the six sestieri of Venice, northern Italy, covering 86 acres (35 hectares) along the Grand Canal. It is one of the oldest parts of the city, having been settled before ... and the Porta della Car ... [...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] |
Ca' D'Oro
The Ca' d'Oro or Palazzo Santa Sofia is a palace on the Grand Canal in Venice, northern Italy. One of the older palaces in the city, its name means "golden house" due to the gilt and polychrome external decorations which once adorned its walls. Since 1927, it has been used as a museum, as the Galleria Giorgio Franchetti. It has long been regarded as the best surviving palazzo in Venetian Gothic architecture, retaining all the most characteristic features, despite some losses. On the facade, the loggia-like window group of closely spaced small columns, with heavy tracery with quatrefoil openings above, uses the formula from the Doge's Palace that had become iconic. There are also the byzantine-inspired decoration along the roofline, and patterning in fancy coloured stone to the flat wall surfaces. The smaller windows show a variety of forms with an ogee arch, capped with a relief ornament, and the edges and zone boundaries are marked with ropework reliefs. The third act of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madern Gerthener
Madern Gerthener (1360/1370 – 1430) was a German stonemason and late Gothic architect. Biography Gerthener was born in Frankfurt to Johann Gerthener, a stonemason whose business the younger Gerthener took over by 1391. In 1395 he entered the city payroll, and soon took a leading role in the city's large construction works. One of his earlier works was involvement in building the Alte Brücke (Old Bridge) over the Main in 1399, and, although his role in only a few other works is directly attested, he was probably involved in a number of other projects around Frankfurt as its ''Werkmeister'', including the city walls and town hall. Of high architecture, the largest portion of his career in Frankfurt was spent on the Frankfurt Cathedral, whose works he was appointed to oversee in 1408. Of note here are the Cathedral's single tower, which Gerthener designed and began building in 1415, and which would become a symbol of Frankfurt's independence; and innovative use of hanging and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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