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1691 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] |
1680s In Architecture
__TOC__ Buildings and structures * 1680 ** St Clement Danes, London, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed. ** Church of San Lorenzo, Turin, designed by Guarino Guarini, is substantially completed. ** Star Building at Windsor Castle and Cassiobury House in England, designed by Hugh May, are completed; and his work on St George's Hall, Windsor Castle, is beginning. * 1681 ** Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice, designed by Baldassare Longhena in 1631, is dedicated. ** Sobieski Royal Chapel in Gdańsk, designed by Tylman van Gameren, is completed. ** Old Ship Church Puritan meeting house in Hingham, Massachusetts, which will become the oldest church building in continuous ecclesiastical use in the United States, is erected. ** Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar in Zaragoza, Aragon, is begun to the design of Francisco Herrera the Younger (completed 1754). * 1682 ** Abingdon County Hall in Oxfordshire, England, designed by Christopher Kempster, is completed. ** Tom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
