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1727 In Architecture
The year 1727 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings * The baroque Catholic church of ''Santiago Apóstol'' is built in Albatera, Spain. * The first Palladian villa in Scotland, Mavisbank House, designed by William Adam in collaboration with his client, Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, is completed. * Widcombe Manor House, Bath, England. * Church of Saint Maurice (Ebersmunster) in Alsace, designed by Peter Thumb, is completed. * Trinitarian Church of Bratislava sanctified. * Baclayon Church in the Philippines rebuilt in stone. * Virga Jesse church, Hasselt, Flanders, built. * First Presbyterian Church (Trenton, New Jersey) built. * Construction of Menshikov Palace (Saint Petersburg) (opened 1711) is completed. * Pilgrimage Church of Saint John of Nepomuk, Grünberg (Zelená hora), Bohemia, designed by Jan Santini Aichel, is completed. Awards * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: François Gallot. Births * Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mavisbank Vitruvius Scoticus
Mavisbank is a country house outside Loanhead, south of Edinburgh in Midlothian, Scotland. It was designed by architect William Adam in collaboration with his client, Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, and was constructed between 1723 and 1727. The first Palladian villa in Scotland, it is described by Historic Scotland as "one of Scotland's most important country houses". It was altered in the 19th century, but suffered decades of neglect in the 20th century. The interiors were gutted by fire in 1973, and the house remains a ruin. , plans exist to partially restore the building and manage the estate as a community asset. Design and construction Sir John Clerk's father, the first Baronet of Penicuik, planned a house on the Mavisbank estate in the late 17th century, for which a drawing of 1698 survives. Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet (1676–1755) was a Member of the Parliament of Scotland, and, after the union of 1707, of the Parliament of Great Britain. He was also an artistic patron, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republika sang Filipinas * ibg, Republika nat Filipinas * ilo, Republika ti Filipinas * ivv, Republika nu Filipinas * pam, Republika ning Filipinas * krj, Republika kang Pilipinas * mdh, Republika nu Pilipinas * mrw, Republika a Pilipinas * pag, Republika na Filipinas * xsb, Republika nin Pilipinas * sgd, Republika nan Pilipinas * tgl, Republika ng Pilipinas * tsg, Republika sin Pilipinas * war, Republika han Pilipinas * yka, Republika si Pilipinas In the recognized optional languages of the Philippines: * es, República de las Filipinas * ar, جمهورية الفلبين, Jumhūriyyat al-Filibbīn is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. It is situated in the western Pacific Ocean and consists of around 7,641 islands t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthias Steinl
Matthias Steinl (otherwise Steindel, Staindle, Steindl or Stinle) (c. 1644–18 April 1727) was an Austrian painter, architect and designer, and one of the country's best known Baroque sculptors. Together with Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656–1723) and his rival Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt (1668–1765), Steinl may be considered one of the most influential architects to introduce the High Baroque style to Austria. He probably originated from the area around Salzburg and probably trained as a craftsman and artist in Austria, although he may have learned to sculpt in the Netherlands and in Prague. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has one of his earliest identified sculptures, an ivory statuette of a triton (c.1670-1675). He was definitely employed in the 1670s as a sculptor in Leubus Abbey (now Lubiąż) in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, where he took over the workshop of the deceased sculptor Matthias Knote, whose widow he married in 1677. Most of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1793 In Architecture
The year 1793 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * March 8 – The Bishop of Popayán, making a pastoral visit to Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia, finds "evil spirits" in the church, and arranges the construction of a new cathedral, the Concatedral de San Nicolás el Magno. * August 8 – In Paris, France, the '' Académie royale d'architecture'' is suspended by the revolutionary National Convention, which decreed the abolition of the national academies. * November 25 – The Prince Regent lays the foundation stone of the Chapel Royal, Brighton. * ''date unknown'' ** English architect Thomas Baldwin, having been appointed as the Bath City Architect in 1775, is dismissed as a result of his rivalry with John Palmer of Bath. ** The Frydenlund mansion near Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by Caspar Frederik Harsdorff, is destroyed by fire. The Crown sells the estate to Karl Adolf Boheman, who refurbishes and expands Johan Cornelius ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux
Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux (Paris 1727 — Paris 1793) was a pioneering French Neoclassicism, neoclassical architect. Training Though he did not gain the Prix de Rome that was the dependable gateway to a prominent French career in architecture, his fellow-student Charles de Wailly invited him to share his prize. In Rome, from September 1754 to December 1756, half the customary three years, they were exposed to the ferment of the new neoclassical style and took part, with Marie-Joseph Peyre, in the archaeological excavations of the Baths of Diocletian; their speculative reconstructions of the complex attracted the attention of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Piranesi. Career On his return to Paris, Moreau-Desproux’s first commission was the fully neoclassical Hôtel de Chavannes near the Porte du Temple, at that time on the outskirts of the city; the house was completed by May 1758 and was demolished in 1846 (Eriksen); it earned a critical analysis from the Marc-Antoine Laugier, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1804 In Architecture
The year 1804 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings * May 21 – Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, laid out by Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, is opened. * August 28 – Cathedral of the Holy Trinity (Quebec), designed by Major William Robe and Captain William Hall, is consecrated. * The Government House in the Bahamas is completed. * Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral in Uruguay is consecrated. * Dalongdong Baoan Temple in Taipei, Taiwan, is completed. * The Pont des Arts in Paris, designed by Louis-Alexandre de Cessart and Jacques Dillon, is completed. * Rostokino Aqueduct for Moscow water supply is completed by Colonel Ivan Gerard to the designs of Friedrich Wilhelm Bauer. Awards * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jules Lesueur. Births * February 7 – William Tinsley, Irish architect working in the United States (died 1885) * March 1 – John Henderson, Scottish ecclesiastical architect (died 1862) * March 13 – Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Nepomuk Fuchs (architect)
Johann Nepomuk Fuchs (Slovenized: ''Janez Nepomuk Fuchs'') (1727 in Neiss (= Nysa, Poland?), Silesia – 7 May 1804 in Maribor)Curk, Jože. 1989. "Johann Nepomuk Fuchs." ''Enciklopedija Slovenije'', vol. 3, pp. 159–160. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga. was a Lower Styrian church architect and, alongside Josef Hueber (1715/17–1787), was the main representative of the "Styrian Baroque" in the third quarter of the 18th century. Life Johann Nepomuk Fuchs was born in Neiss, Silesia. The papers from his estate indicate that he survived the 1755 Lisbon earthquake while he was traveling for study. Fuchs arrived in Maribor in the 1750s as an employee of the architect Josef Hoffer (1700–1764). After Hoffer's death, Fuchs married his widow Barbara in 1762, took over Hoffer's prominent workshop, and soon became prosperous. Fuchs was accepted into the architect's guild in 1762, became a citizen of Maribor in 1763, and became the head of the guild in 1764. Fuchs is known for his oval architec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Prix De Rome
The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them to stay in Rome for three to five years at the expense of the state. The prize was extended to architecture in 1720, music in 1803 and engraving in 1804. The prestigious award was abolished in 1968 by André Malraux, then Minister of Culture, following the May 68 riots that called for cultural change. History The Prix de Rome was initially created for painters and sculptors in 1663 in France, during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by completing a very difficult elimination contest. To succeed, a student had to create a sketch on an assigned topic while isolated in a closed booth with no reference material to draw on. The prize, organised by the Académie Royale de Peinture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Santini Aichel
Jan Blažej Santini Aichel (3 February 1677 – 7 December 1723) was a Czech architect of Italian descent, whose major works represent the unique Baroque Gothic style - the special combination of the Baroque and Gothic styles. Biography He was born on the day of Saint Blaise as the oldest son to a respectable family of a Prague stonemasons Santini Aichel (his grandfather Antonio Aichel moved from Italy to Prague in the 1630s) and was baptized in the St. Vitus Cathedral as Johann Blasius Aichel. He was born with a physical disability – paralysis of a half of his body. This prevented him from a successful follow-up to his father's career. He only served his time of apprenticeship (as did his brother Franz), but he also studied painting from the imperial and royal painter Christian Schröder. Around 1696 he started to travel and gain experience. After his journey through Austria he arrived in Rome, Italy, where he had the possibility to meet with the work of a radical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pilgrimage Church Of Saint John Of Nepomuk
The Pilgrimage Church of Saint John of Nepomuk ( cs, Poutní kostel svatého Jana Nepomuckého) at Zelená hora (meaning "Green Hill", german: Grünberg) is a religious building at the edge of Žďár nad Sázavou, Czech Republic, near the historical border between Moravia and Bohemia. It is the final work of Jan Santini Aichel, a Bohemian architect who combined the Borrominiesque Baroque with references to Gothic elements in both construction and decoration. In 1719, when the Roman Catholic Church declared the tongue of John of Nepomuk to be incorruptible, work started to build a church at Zelená hora, where the future saint had received his early education. It was consecrated immediately after John's beatification in 1720, although construction works lumbered on until 1727. Half a century later, after a serious fire, the shape of the roof was altered. The church, with many furnishings designed by Santini himself, is remarkable for its gothicizing features and complex symbol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1711 In Architecture
The year 1711 in architecture involved some significant events. Events * Commission for Building Fifty New Churches set up in London under terms of the ''New Churches in London and Westminster Act'' (1710). Most of the nineteen churches it eventually builds or rebuilds will be designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, with John James, Thomas Archer and James Gibbs also participating. Buildings and structures Buildings * Marlborough House in London, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed. * Menshikov Palace (Saint Petersburg) is opened. * Pope Clement XI places an Egyptian obelisk in the fountain in front of the Pantheon, Rome. Births * September 22 – Thomas Wright, English astronomer, mathematician and garden designer (died 1786) Deaths * Henry Bell, English architect (born 1647) 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 produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menshikov Palace (Saint Petersburg)
The Menshikov Palace (russian: Меншиковский дворец) is a Petrine Baroque edifice in Saint Petersburg, situated on Universitetskaya Embankment of the Bolshaya Neva on Vasilyevsky Island.It is not to be confused with the Menshikov Palace in Oranienbaum, Russia, built by the same architects around the same time. ''Menshikov Palace'' can also refer to the Lefort Palace in Moscow. It was the first stone building in the city. Since 1981, it has served as a public museum, a branch of the Hermitage Museum. The palace was founded in 1710 as a residence of Saint Petersburg Governor General Alexander Menshikov and built by Italian architects Giovanni Maria Fontana, and, later, German architect Gottfried Johann Schädel. It was opened in 1711, but the construction continued until 1727 (assisted by Domenico Trezzini, Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Georg Johann Mattarnovy and Jean-Baptiste Le Blond), when Menshikov with his family was exiled to Siberia and his property was confis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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