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1699 In Architecture
The year 1699 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Buildings and structures Buildings *English architect and dramatist John Vanbrugh is commissioned to begin Castle Howard in Yorkshire. *Craigiehall, Scotland, designed by Sir William Bruce and James Smith, is completed for William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale *St Werburgh's Church, Derby, England * Thomas Lambert House, Rowley, Massachusetts completed *Trinity Cathedral in Pskov, Russia completed Births *February 10 – Francisco Hurtado Izquierdo, Spanish Baroque architect (died 1725) * February 17 – Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, Prussian painter and architect (died 1753) *''date unknown'' ** Matthew Brettingham, English Palladian country and town house architect (died 1769) **Edward Lovett Pearce, Irish Palladian architect (died 1733 Events January–March * January 13 – Borommarachathirat V becomes King of Siam (now Thailand) upon the deat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pskov Asv07-2018 Kremlin Inside1
Pskov ( rus, Псков, a=pskov-ru.ogg, p=pskof; see also names in other languages) is a city in northwestern Russia and the administrative center of Pskov Oblast, located about east of the Estonian border, on the Velikaya River. Population: Pskov is one of the oldest cities in Russia. It served as the capital of the Pskov Republic and was a trading post of the Hanseatic League before it came under the control of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. History Early history Pskov is one of the oldest cities in Russia. The name of the city, originally Pleskov (historic Russian spelling , ''Plěskov''), may be loosely translated as "he townof purling waters". It was historically known in English as Plescow. Its earliest mention comes in 903, which records that Igor of Kiev married a local lady, Olga (later Saint Olga of Kiev). Pskovians sometimes take this year as the city's foundation date, and in 2003 a great jubilee took place to celebrate Pskov's 1,100th anniversary. The fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
February 10
Events Pre-1600 * 1258 – Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end. * 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparking the revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence. * 1355 – The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days. *1502 – Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India. * 1567 – Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination. 1601–1900 * 1712 – Huilliches in Chiloé rebel against Spanish encomenderos. * 1763 – French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain. * 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1733 In Architecture
The year 1733 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings *Clandon Park (Surrey), designed by Giacomo Leoni, completed. *Trafalgar House (Wiltshire) completed. *St John Horsleydown and St Luke Old Street in London, both designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor and John James, are completed for the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches. *Wade's Bridge, Aberfeldy, Scotland, designed by William Adam, built. *Ludwigsburg Palace is completed. Births * January 4 – Robert Mylne, Scottish architect (died 1811) Deaths * December 7 – Edward Lovett Pearce, Irish palladian architect (born 1699) 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 1730s architecture {{Architecture-hist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Lovett Pearce
Sir Edward Lovett Pearce (1699 – 7 December 1733) was an Irish architect, and the chief exponent of Palladianism in Ireland. He is thought to have initially studied as an architect under his father's first cousin, Sir John Vanbrugh. He is best known for the Irish Houses of Parliament in Dublin, and his work on Castletown House. The architectural concepts he employed on both civic and private buildings were to change the face of architecture in Ireland. He could be described as the father of Irish Palladian architecture and Georgian Dublin. Early life Edward Lovett Pearce was born about 1699 in County Meath and was the only child of General Edward Pearce, a first cousin of the architect Sir John Vanbrugh, and Frances, daughter of Christopher Lovett, Lord Mayor of Dublin 1676–77 and previously a merchant in Turkey. In that same year Vanbrugh was beginning work on his first great architectural commission of Castle Howard which was the first truly baroque house in England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Matthew Brettingham
Matthew Brettingham (1699 – 19 August 1769), sometimes called Matthew Brettingham the Elder, was an 18th-century Englishman who rose from humble origins to supervise the construction of Holkham Hall, and become one of the country's best-known architects of his generation. Much of his principal work has since been demolished, particularly his work in London, where he revolutionised the design of the grand townhouse. As a result, he is often overlooked today, remembered principally for his Palladian remodelling of numerous country houses, many of them situated in the East Anglia area of Britain. As Brettingham neared the pinnacle of his career, Palladianism began to fall out of fashion and neoclassicism was introduced, championed by the young Robert Adam. Early life Brettingham was born in 1699, the second son of Launcelot Brettingham (1664–1727), a bricklayer or stonemason from Norwich, the county town of Norfolk, England. He married Martha Bunn (c. 1697–1783) at St. Augus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1753 In Architecture
The year 1753 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings * Horse Guards (building), Horse Guards in London, designed by William Kent and John Vardy, is completed. * Independence Hall, State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed by Edmund Woolley and Andrew Hamilton (lawyer), Andrew Hamilton, is completed. * New Branicki Palace, Warsaw, designed by Johann Sigmund Deybel, is completed. * First stage of Horace Walpole's Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic Revival 'castle' at Strawberry Hill House near London is completed. * Kastrupgård in Copenhagen, designed by Jacob Fortling for himself, is completed. * Carlyle House, Alexandria, Virginia, is completed. * Cuvilliés Theatre in the Munich Residenz, Bavaria, designed by François de Cuvilliés, is opened. * Schlosstheater Schwetzingen in Schwetzingen Palace, Baden-Württemberg, designed by Nicolas de Pigage, is opened. * Confidencen theatre in Ulriksdal Palace, Sweden, with interio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Wenzeslaus Von Knobelsdorff
(Hans) Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (17 February 1699 – 16 September 1753) was a painter and architect in Prussia. Knobelsdorff was born in Kuckädel, now in Krosno Odrzańskie County. A soldier in the service of Prussia, he resigned his commission in 1729 as captain so that he could pursue his interest in architecture. In 1740 he travelled to Paris and Italy to study at the expense of the new king, Frederick II of Prussia. Knobelsdorff was influenced as an architect by French Baroque Classicism and by Palladian architecture. With his interior design and the backing of the king, he created the basis for the Frederician Rococo style at Rheinsberg, which was the residence of the crown prince and later monarch. Knobelsdorff was the head custodian of royal buildings and head of a privy council on financial matters. In 1746 he was dismissed by the king, and Johann Boumann finished all his projects, including Sanssouci. Knobelsdorff died in Berlin. His grave is preserved in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
February 17
Events Pre-1600 * 1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau. * 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of Bayezid I, becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire with the support of Mircea I of Wallachia. *1500 – Duke Friedrich and Duke Johann attempt to subdue the peasantry of Dithmarschen, Denmark, in the Battle of Hemmingstedt. * 1600 – On his way to be burned at the stake for heresy, at Campo de' Fiori in Rome, the philosopher Giordano Bruno has a wooden vise put on his tongue to prevent him continuing to speak. 1601–1900 * 1621 – Myles Standish is appointed as first military commander of the English Plymouth Colony in North America. * 1674 – An earthquake strikes the Indonesian island of Ambon. It triggers a megatsunami which drowns over 2,300 people. * 1676 – Sixteen men of Pascual de Iriate's expedition are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1725 In Architecture
The year 1725 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings * Peterhof Palace near Saint Petersburg is completed. * St George's, Hanover Square, London, designed by John James, is completed for the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches. * Hôpital civil, Strasbourg, completed Births * Peter Atkinson, English architect working in York (died 1805) * Matthew Brettingham the Younger, English architect (died 1803) * François Dominique Barreau de Chefdeville, French architect (died 1765) * Approximate date – James Bridges, English architect working in Bristol Deaths * March 2 – José Benito de Churriguera, Spanish architect and sculptor (born 1665) 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 ... Ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Hurtado Izquierdo
Francisco Hurtado Izquierdo y Fernández (10 February 1669 – 30 June 1725) was a Spanish architect of the Baroque period, author of the Sancta Sanctorum (sacristy) in the Granada Charterhouse. He was born and educated in Priego de Córdoba. During his youth, Hurtado Izquierdo served in the Spanish royal army and may have visited Sicily, which was under Spanish rule at the time. His architectural career was mostly focused on Granada, where he designed the sacrament chapels of the cathedral and charterhouse. The latter was one of his most elaborate works, which he called a "precious jewel" and boasted that there was nothing like it anywhere else in Europe. He also designed the very elaborate camarin of the El Paular Charterhouse in Segovia. Hurtado Izquierdo became the focus of a school of architect-designers and posthumously had a significant influence on the development of Mexican church decorative architecture. His collaborators included the brothers Jerónimo and Teo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinity Cathedral In Pskov
The Trinity Cathedral (russian: Троицкий собор) is located in the Pskov Krom or Kremlin on the east bank of the Velikaya (Great) River. It has, since 1589, been the mother church of the Pskov Eparchy. The first wooden Trinity Cathedral (the Russian term sobor, translated as "cathedral" can mean any major church irrespective of it being a cathedral church of a bishop) was built in the tenth century, allegedly under the patronage of Princess Olga, but this seems unlikely as Olga's conversion was personal, and the conversion of the Rus Land did not occur until 988, almost two decades after her death. Thus, it seems likely the first church dates to the time of Christianization or shortly thereafter. This church was replaced by a stone church in 1138, allegedly at the behest of Prince Vsevolod Mstislavich, who died the previous year. The cathedral was destroyed and rebuilt several times over the centuries; for example, ''the Novgorodian First Chronicle'' mentions that in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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