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1737 In Architecture
The year 1737 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings * November 4 – The Teatro di San Carlo in Naples (Italy), designed by Giovanni Antonio Medrano under the direction of Charles VII of Naples, officially opens * Palladian Bridge, Wilton House (England), designed by Roger Morris, is completed. * Fuerte San Miguel (Uruguay). * Samuel Eliot House in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. * Black Swan Hotel, Devizes, England. * The ceiling of the chapter house in Porto Cathedral is decorated. * Approximate date – New Nostell Priory in Yorkshire, England, designed by James Paine, begun. Publications * Andrea Palladio – '' I quattro libri dell'architettura'' Births * June 7 – Jacques Gondouin, French architect and designer (died 1818) * September 8 – Samuel Wyatt, English architect and engineer (died 1807) Deaths * March 8 – Domenico Rossi, Swiss-Italian architect (born 1657) * December 21 – Alessandro Galilei, Florenti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Quattro Libri Dell'architettura
''I quattro libri dell'architettura'' (''The Four Books of Architecture'') is a treatise on architecture by the architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580), written in Italian. It was first published in four volumes in 1570 in Venice, illustrated with woodcuts after the author's own drawings. It has been reprinted and translated many times, often in single-volume format. Book I was first published in English in 1663 in a London edition by Godfrey Richards. The first complete English language edition was published in London by the Italian-born architect Giacomo Leoni in 1715–1720.The Center for Palladian Studies in America, Inc., "Palladio and his Books." http://www.palladiancenter.org/palladiobooks.html Organization The treatise is divided into four books: The first book discusses building materials and techniques. It documents five classical orders (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, Composite) in all their parts (bases, columns, architraves, arches, capitals, trabeations), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1737 Works
Events January–March * January 5 – Spain and the Holy Roman Empire sign instruments of cession at Pontremoli in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in Italy, with the Empire receiving control of Tuscany and the Grand Duchy of Parma and Piacenza, in return for Don Carlos of Spain being recognized as King of Naples and King of Sicily. * January 9 – The Empires of Austria and Russia enter into a secret military alliance that leads to Austria's disastrous entry into the Russo-Turkish War. * January 18 – In Manila, a peace treaty is signed between Spain's Governor-General of the Philippines, Fernándo Valdés y Tamon, and the Sultan Azim ud-Din I of Sulu, recognizing Azim's authority over the islands of the Sulu Archipelago. * February 20 – France's Foreign Minister, Germain Louis Chauvelin, is dismissed by King Louis XV's Chief Minister, Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury * February 27 – French scientists Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau and Georges- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Alessandro Galilei
Alessandro Maria Gaetano Galilei (25 August 1691 – 21 December 1737) was an Italian mathematician, architect and theorist, a member of the same patrician family of Galileo. Biography Born in Florence, he received architectural and engineering training from Antonio Maria Ferri, an outstanding figure of the Accademia dei Nobili, who lectured and wrote a treatise on perspective, fortifications and artillery. With him young Galilei worked on the study of building techniques, stereometry, hydraulics. Visiting English ''milord''s were impressed with the classicism of his early designs, and he was invited by a party of English to London in 1714. There he participated in a variety of architectural projects, most notably collaborating with the civic engineer Nicholas Dubois. The only other notable Italian architect in London at the time was Giacomo Leoni. The two architects shared a classicising bent that appealed to the English but was at odds with current Baroque architectural practic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
December 21
Events Pre-1600 *AD 69 – The Roman Senate declares Vespasian emperor of Rome, the last in the Year of the Four Emperors. * 1124 – Pope Honorius II is consecrated, having been elected after the controversial dethroning of Pope Celestine II. *1140 – After a siege of several weeks, the city of Weinsberg and its castle surrender to Conrad III of Germany. * 1237 – The city of Ryazan is sacked by the Mongol army of Batu Khan. *1361 – The Battle of Linuesa is fought in the context of the Spanish Reconquista between the forces of the Emirate of Granada and the combined army of the Kingdom of Castile and of Jaén resulting in a Castilian victory. * 1598 – Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by cacique Pelentaru, inflict a major defeat on Spanish troops in southern Chile. 1601–1900 *1620 – Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the ''Mayflower'' Pilgrims land near what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1657 In Architecture
__TOC__ Buildings and structures Buildings * 1650 ** The Marian column in Prague is erected (destroyed 1918). ** Talar Ashraf palace in Isfahan, Persia, is built. ** ''(approximate date)'' The Khaju Bridge in Isfahan is built. * 1651 ** Collegiate Church of Saint Magdalena and Saint Stanisław in Poznań (Poland) is started (completed c.1701). ** '' Karamon'' of Ueno Tōshō-gū shrine in Tokyo is built. * 1652 – Church of the Resurrection, Kostroma. * 1653 ** The Taj Mahal mausoleum at Agra in India (begun in 1630 and probably designed by Ustad Ahmad Lahauri) is completed. ** The Radziwiłł Palace, Vilnius, is completed. * 1654 – Construction of Skokloster Castle in Sweden to the design of Caspar Vogel begins (completed 1676). * 1656 ** The Jama Masjid, Delhi, is completed. ** The colonnade of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is started by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. * 1658 ** Terraced houses at 52–55 Newington Green in London, perhaps by Thomas Pidcock, are completed. ** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domenico Rossi (architect)
Domenico Rossi (28 December 1657 – 8 March 1737) was a Swiss-Italian architect.Fulvio Lenzo, ''L'architetto Domenico Rossi di Morcote. Autore della chiesa e della faccita di Santa Maria Assunta dei Gesuiti,'' in Giorgio Mollisi ed., ''Svizzeri a Venezia nella storia nell'arte nella cultura nell'economia dalla metà del Quattrocento ad oggi,'' Arte&Storia, a. 8, n. 40, Editrice Ticino Management S.A., Lugano, 2008, 302-321 Biography He was born in Morcote, Ticino, and was a pupil of Baldassarre Longhena. Later he became family architect of the noble Venetian houses of Dolfin, Savorgnan and Manin. In 1701 he directed the restoration of Palazzo Dolfin and in 1709 he was commissioned the renovation of the façade of San Stae church. In 1713 he designed the Baroque church of the Gesuiti, also in Venice, while in 1714-1715 he worked at the church of Ljubljana's Križanke, in the shape of a Greek cross. In 1724 he built the Ca' Corner della Regina. One of his last works was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March 8
Events Pre-1600 * 1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem ''Shahnameh''. *1126 – Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León. * 1262 – Battle of Hausbergen between bourgeois militias and the army of the bishop of Strasbourg. * 1558 – The city of Pori ( sv, Björneborg) was founded by Duke John on the shores of the Gulf of Bothnia. 1601–1900 * 1658 – Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (1655–1661), Frederick III, the King of Denmark–Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden. * 1702 – Queen Anne, the younger sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland. * 1722 – The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at the Battle of Gulnabad. * 1736 – Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran. * 1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
