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1712 In Architecture
The year 1712 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings * Castle Howard in Yorkshire, England (begun 1699), designed by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor, is completed. * Roehampton House in Roehampton, London, England, designed by Thomas Archer is completed. * Palais Trautson in Vienna is built. * St Alkmund's Church, Whitchurch, Shropshire, England, designed by John Barker, is consecrated. * Construction of church of Santissimo Nome di Maria e degli Angeli Custodi, Genoa, begins (completed c.1770). Births * November 7 – Antoine Choquet de Lindu, French architect and military engineer (died 1790) Deaths * October 27 – Sir William Robinson, English architect, worked in Ireland (born 1645) 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, plannin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle Howard And Garden
A castle is a type of fortification, fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by Military order (monastic society), military orders. Scholars debate the scope of the word ''castle'', but usually consider it to be the private fortified house, fortified residence of a lord or noble. This is distinct from a palace, which is not fortified; from a fortress, which was not always a residence for royalty or nobility; from a ''pleasance'' which was a walled-in residence for nobility, but not adequately fortified; and from a fortified settlement, which was a public defence – though there are many similarities among these types of construction. Use of the term has varied over time and has also been applied to structures such as hill forts and 19th-20th century homes built to resemble castles. Over the approximately 900 years when genuine castles were built, they took on a great many forms with many different features, although s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santissimo Nome Di Maria E Degli Angeli Custodi, Genoa
The church of the Santissimo Nome di Maria e degli Angeli Custodi, commonly known as the Church of the Scuole Pie, is a church in central Genoa, located a few metres away from the Cathedral of Genoa. The church was built on property belonging to the community of Piarist or Scolopi fathers (members of the Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools, who had come to the city to establish a school from the town of Savona in the 16th century. Church construction began in 1712, and was completed by around 1770. Among the artists completing frescoes in the interior were Giuseppe Galeotti and Andrea Leoncini. Galeotti painted the ''Saints Jerome, Ambrogio, Gregory, and Augustine'' in the Pilasters. Leoncini frescoed Giuseppe Calasanzio (the founder of the order of the scolopi). Francesco Maria Schiaffino designed nine relief sculptures present in the church, and died (1765) before they were all completed by his studio. The three representing the ''Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1712 Works
Year 171 ( CLXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Severus and Herennianus (or, less frequently, year 924 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 171 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Marcus Aurelius forms a new military command, the ''praetentura Italiae et Alpium''. Aquileia is relieved, and the Marcomanni are evicted from Roman territory. * Marcus Aurelius signs a peace treaty with the Quadi and the Sarmatian Iazyges. The Germanic tribes of the Hasdingi (Vandals) and the Lacringi become Roman allies. * Armenia and Mesopotamia become protectorates of the Roman Empire. * The Costoboci cross the Danube (Dacia) and ravage Thrace in the Balkan Peninsula. They reach Eleusis, near Athens, and destr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1645 In Architecture
__TOC__ Buildings and structures Buildings * The Taj Mahal in Agra, India, is under construction, probably by Ustad Ahmad Lahori, to a commission by Shah Jahan. The mosque and ''jawab'' in the complex are completed in 1643. * 1640 ** Børsen in Copenhagen, designed by Lorenz van Steenwinckel, Lorentz and Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger and begun in 1619, is completed. ** 59–60 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London (later known as Lindsey House), probably designed by Inigo Jones and begun about 1638, is completed. ''Survey of London: volume 3: St Giles-in-the-Fields, pt I: Lincoln's Inn Fields'' (1912), pp. 96–103. Retrieved 2015-03-17. ** :File:Butterwalk hdr.jpg, Butterwalk, Dartmouth, Devon, Dartmouth, England, is completed. * 1641 ** Tron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Robinson (architect)
Sir William Robinson (1645–1712) was the Surveyor General of Ireland from 1670/71 until 1700. Born in England, Robinson was appointed to the post of Surveyor General by John Berkeley in his first year of office as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Robinson is credited as the architect of several notable buildings in Ireland during his tenure. These include: Charles Fort in Kinsale (1670s), the Royal Hospital in Kilmainham (1684), St. Michan's Church in Dublin (1686), St. Mary's Church in Dublin (~1700), "Marsh's Library"(1701), and developmental works at Dublin Castle. From 1684 Robinson shared the post of Surveyor General with William Molyneaux, until his resignation in 1700, when he was replaced by Thomas de Burgh (designer of the Royal Barracks in Dublin - now Collins Barracks). Robinson was knighted and admitted to the Privy Council of Ireland His or Her Majesty's Privy Council in Ireland, commonly called the Privy Council of Ireland, Irish Privy Council, or in earlier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1790 In Architecture
The year 1790 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * ''date unknown'' – Work begins on the East India Company's Plantation House in Saint Helena, which remains the official residence of the Governor. Buildings and structures Buildings completed * New church of the Abbey of St Genevieve in Paris, designed by Jacques-Germain Soufflot and finished by Jean-Baptiste Rondelet, is completed to serve as the Panthéon. * Estrela Basilica in Lisbon. * All Saints church, Wellington, Shropshire, England, designed by George Steuart. * Royal Observatory in Madrid, designed by Juan de Villanueva. * Härnösand Residence in Sweden. * The Pitot House, New Orleans built by Don Santiago Lorreins (bought by James Pitot in 1809). * The John Dodd Hat Shop in Danbury, Connecticut, built by lawyer John Dodd. * The bridge at Warwick Castle, England. * Monmouth County Gaol, UK, designed by William Blackburn. Births * May 4 – Archibald Simpson, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Choquet De Lindu
Antoine Choquet de Lindu (7 November 1712, in Brest – 7 October 1790, in Brest) was a French architect and military engineer in the service of the French Navy Life Entering the Navy as a clerk, like his father, he executed a very large number of very important buildings at Brest, well known for their solidity if not for their elegance and so perfectly fitted to their purpose. Made sous-ingénieur in 1743, he then became chief engineer in 1746. From 1764 to 1767, the Ministry of the Navy and the Ministry for War were merged, and Choquet de Lindu was attached to the royal corps of engineers, with a commission as an infantry captain (though he was kept on as director of the maritime works of the port of Brest, under Amédée-François Frézier). Between 1738 and his retirement in 1784 Choquet de Lindu devoted himself to the rebuilding and expansion of the port of Brest, producing "works of all kinds" – barracks, hospitals, magazines, dry docks, shipyards, theatres, prisons, sai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1770 In Architecture
The year 1770 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings * Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England, designed by Stiff Leadbetter and John Sanderson, completed * Shire Hall, Nottingham, England, designed by James Gandon and Joseph Pickford, completed * New National Mint of Bolivia in Potosí completed * Palace of Inquisition in Cartagena, Viceroyalty of New Granada, completed about this date * Liria Palace in Madrid, designed by Ventura Rodríguez, built about this date * Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, probably designed by Manuel Alves Setúbal, consecrated * Church of Santissimo Nome di Maria e degli Angeli Custodi, Genoa, begun in 1712, completed about this date * Church of La Magdalena, Getafe, Spain, designed by Alonso de Covarrubias and Juan Gómez de Mora and begun in the 16th century, completed * Wooden Saint Parascheva Church, Desești, Romania, built * New Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Alkmund's Church, Whitchurch
St Alkmund's Church is an active Anglican parish church in Whitchurch, Shropshire, England. It stands at an elevated position in the centre of the town. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England which has designated it a Grade I listed building. It is in the diocese of Lichfield, the archdeaconry of Salop and the deanery of Wem and Whitchurch. History The accepted date of the foundation of the church, named for Alcmund of Derby, is 912, although the earliest record of a church on the site is 1089. This church was built in white stone, giving the name to the town. In 1296, the first rector of the church was instituted. In 1403 following his death at the Battle of Shrewsbury, Sir Henry Percy (Hotspur) was temporarily buried in the church. Towards the end of the 15th century the body of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, who had been killed at the Battle of Castillon in 1453, was removed to the church. His embalmed heart was buried under the porch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle Howard
Castle Howard is a stately home in North Yorkshire, England, within the civil parish of Henderskelfe, located north of York. It is a private residence and has been the home of the Carlisle branch of the Howard family for more than 300 years. Castle Howard is not a fortified structure, but the term "castle" is sometimes used in the name of an English country house that was built on the site of a former castle. The house is familiar to television and film audiences as the fictional "Brideshead", both in Granada Television's 1981 adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's ''Brideshead Revisited'' and in a two-hour 2008 adaptation for cinema. Today, it is part of the Treasure Houses of England group of heritage houses. History In 1577, the 4th Duke of Norfolk's third son, Lord William Howard, married his step-sister Elizabeth Dacre, youngest daughter of the 4th Baron Dacre. She brought with her the sizable estates of Henderskelfe in Yorkshire and Naworth Castle in what was then Cumberl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vienna
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Palais Trautson
Palais Trautson is a Baroque palace in Vienna, Austria, located at Museumstraße 7. It was once owned by the noble Trautson family. History The land on which the palace is built originally belonged to Countess Maria Margareta Trautson in 1657 and consisted of a small house and a vineyard. After the Battle of Vienna, During repairs Johann Leopold Donat von Trautson, the prince of Troutson, commissioned Christian Alexander Oedtl to build the palace in 1712. Oedtl used designs by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. In 1760, the palace was bought by Empress Maria Theresa of Austria for 40,000 Guilders, who then gave the palace to the Hungarian Guard. The Hungarian Guard converted the palace's garden to a riding school and the orangery An orangery or orangerie was a room or a dedicated building on the grounds of fashionable residences of Northern Europe from the 17th to the 19th centuries where orange and other fruit trees were protected during the winter, as a very lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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