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1470 In Architecture
__TOC__ Buildings and structures Buildings * 1470 – Church and lighthouse tower, Westkapelle, Walcheren, completed * 1471 – Provand's Lordship, Glasgow, Scotland, built. * 1472–1474 – The Ordos Wall, first substantial section of the Ming Great Wall of China, built * 1473 – Work on Cologne Cathedral west front and towers suspended until 19th century * 1474 – Nave vault of St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, completed * 1475–1479 – Dormition Cathedral, Moscow, designed by Aristotele Fioravanti, built * 1479 – Munich Frauenkirche completed by Jörg von Halsbach Births * 1475: March 6 – Michelangelo, born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni in Caprese, Tuscany, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet and engineer (died 1564) * 1475: September 6 – Sebastiano Serlio born in Bologna, Italian Mannerist architect and theoretician working in France (died c. 1554) Deaths * 1472: April 25 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian architect and polymath (born 140 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munich Frauenkirche
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14th Century In Architecture
Buildings and structures Buildings * c. 1300 ** Nidaros Cathedral is completed in Trondheim, Norway. ** Spire of St Wulfram's Church, Grantham, England, is completed. * c. 1300–1310 – Great Coxwell Barn in the Vale of White Horse in England is built. * 1302–1312 – Dome of Soltaniyeh in Ilkhanate Persia is built. * 1304 ** Ypres Cloth Hall is completed. ** St John the Evangelist's Church, Newton Arlosh, England, is completed. * 1306 – Wells Cathedral chapter house in England is completed in Decorated Gothic style. * 1308 ** The Priest's House, Muchelney, England, is built. ** The Yuchang Lou Yuchang Lou in Yuan dynasty China is built. * 1309 – Construction begins on the Doge's Palace, Venice, Doge's Palace in Venice (completed in 1420s in architecture, 1424). * c. 1310–1320 – Funerary chapel, Chora Church of the Monastery of Christ, Constantinople, is built. * 1311 – Alai Darwaza gateway in Qutb complex, Delhi Sultanate, is completed. * 1314 ** Completion of Old St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelozzo
Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi (1396 – 7 October 1472) was an Italian architect and sculptor. Considered one of the great pioneers of architecture during the Renaissance, Michelozzo was a favored Medici architect who was extensively employed by Cosimo de' Medici. He was a pupil of Lorenzo Ghiberti in his early years, and later collaborated with Donatello. Known primarily for designing Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence, he is often overshadowed by his contemporaries Donatello in sculpture and Brunelleschi in architecture. Life Early life Michelozzo was born in Florence in 1396. He was the son of Bartolomeo di Gherardo Borgognone and Antonia. Borgognone was of French origin and arrived in Florence from Burgundy at an unknown date. Borgognone lived and worked in the Santa Croce quarter of Florence as a tailor, and was made a Florentine citizen on 9 April 1376. Michelozzo had three brothers named Leonardo (b. 1389/90), Zanobi (b. 1391), and Giovanni (b. 1403). By 1391, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1404 In Architecture
__TOC__ Buildings and structures Buildings * 1402 – Seville Cathedral is begun. * 1402 – Charles Bridge in Prague, Czech Republic is completed. * 1403 ** The Gur-e-Amir Mausoleum in Samarkand is begun on the orders of Timur. ** The City God Temple of Shanghai is built. * 1405 ** The Changdeokgung of Korea is completed. ** Construction of new Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi in Turkistan (Timurid Empire) ceases. * 1407 – Swalcliffe Tithe Barn in Oxfordshire, England, is completed. * 1409 ** The Upper Castle in Vilnius in Lithuania is completed. ** The Trakai Island Castle at Trakai in Lithuania is completed. Births * c. 1400 – Filarete, born Antonio di Pietro Averlino, Florentine architect (died c. 1469) * 1404: February 14 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian architect and polymath (died 1472) Deaths * 1400: August 21 – Henry Yevele, English master mason (born c. 1320) References * Architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti (; 14 February 1404 – 25 April 1472) was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths. He is considered the founder of Western cryptography, a claim he shares with Johannes Trithemius. Although he often is characterized exclusively as an architect, as James Beck has observed, "to single out one of Leon Battista's 'fields' over others as somehow functionally independent and self-sufficient is of no help at all to any effort to characterize Alberti's extensive explorations in the fine arts". Although Alberti is known mostly for being an artist, he was also a mathematician of many sorts and made great advances to this field during the fifteenth century. The two most important buildings he designed are the churches of San Sebastiano (1460) and Sant'Andrea (1472), both in Mantua. Alberti's life was described in Giorgio Vasari's ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1554 In Architecture
__TOC__ Buildings and structures Buildings * 1550–1554 – Church of Sant'Andrea in Via Flaminia, Rome, designed by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, constructed, the first church of the Italian Renaissance to have an elliptical dome. * 1550–1557 – Süleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul, designed by Mimar Sinan, constructed. * 1552–1554 – Design and construction of Villa Cornaro in the Veneto by Palladio. * 1552 – Work begins on Fort Saint Elmo on Malta. * 1554 ** Work begins on Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. ** Work begins on Sulaymaniyya Takiyya (western building) in Damascus. * c. 1555 – Design and construction of monastery of Santiago Apóstol and its basilica church in Cuilapan de Guerrero, Oaxaca, Mexico, by Antonio de Barbosa, begins. * 1558 – Sforza Chapel in Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, designed by Michelangelo. * 1559 ** Work begins on the Villa Farnese at Caprarola, designed by Vignola. ** Sulaymaniyya Takiyya (western building) in Damascus is co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nationalities. Its metropolitan area is home to more than 1,000,000 people. It is known as the Fat City for its rich cuisine, and the Red City for its Spanish-style red tiled rooftops and, more recently, its leftist politics. It is also called the Learned City because it is home to the oldest university in the world. Originally Etruscan, the city has been an important urban center for centuries, first under the Etruscans (who called it ''Felsina''), then under the Celts as ''Bona'', later under the Romans (''Bonōnia''), then again in the Middle Ages, as a free municipality and later ''signoria'', when it was among the largest European cities by population. Famous for its towers, churches and lengthy porticoes, Bologna has a well-preserved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastiano Serlio
Sebastiano Serlio (6 September 1475 – c. 1554) was an Italian Mannerist architect, who was part of the Italian team building the Palace of Fontainebleau. Serlio helped canonize the classical orders of architecture in his influential treatise variously known as ''I sette libri dell'architettura'' ("Seven Books of Architecture") or ''Tutte l'opere d'architettura et prospetiva'' ("All the works on architecture and perspective"). Biography Born in Bologna, Serlio went to Rome in 1514, and worked in the atelier of Baldassare Peruzzi, where he stayed until the Sack of Rome in 1527 put all architectural projects on hold for a time. Like Peruzzi, he began as a painter. He lived in Venice from about 1527 to the early 1540s but left little mark on the city. Serlio's model of a church façade was a regularized version, cleaned up and made more classical, of the innovative method of providing a façade to a church with a high vaulted nave flanked by low side aisles, providing a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1564 In Architecture
__TOC__ Buildings and structures Buildings * 1560 ** Palladian villas of the Veneto: Villa Foscari is completed and Villa Barbaro is probably begun. ** Wat Xieng Thong Buddhist temple at Luang Prabang in the kingdom of Lan Xang (modern-day Laos) is completed. ** Construction of the Uffizi in Florence, designed by Giorgio Vasari, begins. ** Construction of Mexico City Cathedral begins. ** Reconstruction of Poznań Town Hall in Poland by Giovanni Battista di Quadro is completed. * 1561 ** Saint Basil's Cathedral, Moscow, designed by Postnik Yakovlev, is completed. ** The Tian Yi Ge library in Ningbo (Ming dynasty China) is established. * 1562–64 ** Façade of the church of San Francesco della Vigna in Venice, designed by Andrea Palladio, is built. ** Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome, designed by Michelangelo, is adapted from the Baths of Diocletian. * 1562–67 – Church of San Pedro and San Pablo, Zacatlán, Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico, is built ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuscany
Tuscany ( ; it, Toscana ) is a Regions of Italy, region in central Italy with an area of about and a population of about 3.8 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence (''Firenze''). Tuscany is known for its landscapes, history, artistic legacy, and its influence on high culture. It is regarded as the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance and of the foundations of the Italian language. The prestige established by the Tuscan dialect's use in literature by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini led to its subsequent elaboration as the language of culture throughout Italy. It has been home to many figures influential in the history of art and science, and contains well-known museums such as the Uffizi and the Palazzo Pitti. Tuscany is also known for its wines, including Chianti, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, Morellino di Scansano, Brunello di Montalcino and white Vernaccia di San Gimignano. Having a strong linguisti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caprese Michelangelo
Caprese Michelangelo is a village and ''comune'' in the province of Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy. It is the birthplace of the Renaissance artist Michelangelo. The village is roughly east of Florence. The village is situated in the Valtiberina or High Tiber The Tiber ( ; it, Tevere ; la, Tiberis) is the third-longest river in Italy and the longest in Central Italy, rising in the Apennine Mountains in Emilia-Romagna and flowing through Tuscany, Umbria, and Lazio, where it is joined by th ... Valley. Sights include the 13th-century church of St. John the Baptist, where Michelangelo was baptized; the ancient churches of ''San Cristoforo a Monna'', ''San Paolo a Monna'' and '' Santi Ippolito and Cassiano''; the abbey of ''San Martino a Tifi''; the Michelangelo Museum and Library. References Cities and towns in Tuscany Michelangelo {{Arezzo-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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