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1751 In Architecture
The year 1751 in architecture involved some significant events. Events * June 29 – Foundations of Santo Domingo convent in Buenos Aires, designed by Antonio Masella Turin (construction completed in 1805), are laid. Buildings and structures Buildings * Dresden Cathedral in Saxony, designed by Gaetano Chiaveri (construction begun in 1738), is completed. * Church of St. Michael in Berg am Laim, Munich in Bavaria, designed by Johann Michael Fischer (construction begun in 1738), is completed. * Pilgrimage Church of Maria Schnee, Aufhausen in Bavaria, designed by Johann Michael Fischer (construction begun in 1736), is completed. * Crossmichael Parish Church in south west Scotland (construction begun in 1749) is completed. * The Kalvária Banská Štiavnica calvary in the Kingdom of Hungary (construction begun in 1744) is completed. * The Sunehri Masjid ("Golden Mosque") in the Red Fort of Old Delhi, India (construction begun in 1747) is completed. * Second Old Ursuline Convent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1744 In Architecture
The year 1744 in architecture involved some significant events. Events Buildings and structures Buildings * Giác Lâm Pagoda in Saigon is built by Lý Thụy Long. *Sabil-Kuttab of Katkhuda in Cairo, designed by Katkhuda of Egypt ('Abd al Rahman Katkhuda'), is built. *Tombul Mosque in Shumen, Ottoman Empire, is completed. *St Botolph's Aldgate church in the City of London, designed by George Dance the Elder, is completed. *St John the Baptist's Church, Knutsford in England, designed by J. Garlive, is completed. *Twelve Collegia in Saint Petersburg, designed by Domenico Trezzini and Theodor Schwertfeger, is completed. *The second Summer Palace in Saint Petersburg, designed by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, is completed. *Remodelling of the Hirschholm Palace in Denmark to a design by Lauritz de Thurah is completed. *Remodelling of the Prince's Mansion, Copenhagen in Denmark by Nicolai Eigtved is completed. *The Würzburg Residence in Germany, designed by Balthasar Neumann with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuskovo
Kuskovo (russian: Куско́во) was the summer country house and estate of the Sheremetev family. Built in the mid-18th century, it was originally situated several miles to the east of Moscow but now is part of the East District of the city. It was one of the first great summer country estates of the Russian nobility, and one of the few near Moscow still preserved. Today the estate is the home of the Russian State Museum of Ceramics, and the park is a favourite place of recreation for Muscovites. History In the 17th century, Kuskovo became the property of Boris Petrovich Sheremetev (1652–1719), a Russian field marshal under Czar Peter the Great, who led the Russian Army in the victory over the Swedes at the Battle of Poltava (1707) in the Great Northern War. There was already a wooden church on the site, a house and several ponds. The palace was constructed by his son Petr Borisovich Sheremetev (1713–1788). Count Sheremetev was one of the richest men in Russ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince William Mansion, Copenhagen
The Prince Wilhelm Mansion (Danish language, Danish: Prins Wilhelms Palæ) is a historic property on the corner of Sankt Annæ Plads and Amaliegade in central Copenhagen, Denmark. It is owned by the property investment company Jeudan which is headquartered in the building. History 18th century The mansion was built from 1749 to 1752 for Wilhelm August von der Osten. It was located in the former grounds of Sophie Amalienborg which were now up for redevelopment into the new district Frederiksstaden. Robert Tuite (1746-1811), a plantation owner from Saint Croix in the Danish West Indies, purchased the building in 1777. He also acquired the Andreas Bjørn House and an associated sugar refinery, Union House, in Christianshavn. He married Mary Ann (-1807), the widow of Robert Cotton Trefusis. in London in 1780. The couple lived in the mansion on Sankt Annæ Plads but divorced in 1787 and Tuite moved back to Saint Croiz in 1792. Charles August Selby, Tuite 's cousin and business partner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1716 In Architecture
The year 1716 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * December 18 – James Gibbs joins the "Vandykes clubb", also called the Club of St Luke for "Virtuosi in London". Its members include William Kent and William Talman (architect), William Talman; other notable members with whom Gibbs would later work include the garden designer Charles Bridgeman and the sculptor John Michael Rysbrack who sculpts many of the memorials Gibbs designs. * Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond becomes chief architect of Saint Petersburg in Russia. * Italian architect and sculptor Carlo Bartolomeo Rastrelli relocates to Russia to work on a bust of Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, Alexander Menshikov; he works there for the rest of his life. * Nicholas Hawksmoor advises on the restoration of Beverley Minster in the north of England. Buildings and structures Buildings * June 21 – Work begins on construction of the Codrington Library at All Souls College, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Hawksmoor
Nicholas Hawksmoor (probably 1661 – 25 March 1736) was an English architect. He was a leading figure of the English Baroque style of architecture in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. Hawksmoor worked alongside the principal architects of the time, Christopher Wren and John Vanbrugh, and contributed to the design of some of the most notable buildings of the period, including St Paul's Cathedral, Wren's City of London churches, Greenwich Hospital, Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. Part of his work has been correctly attributed to him only relatively recently, and his influence has reached several poets and authors of the twentieth century. Life Hawksmoor was born in Nottinghamshire in 1661, into a yeoman farming family, almost certainly in East Drayton or Ragnall, Nottinghamshire. On his death he was to leave property at nearby Ragnall, Dunham and a house and land at Great Drayton. It is not known where he received his schooling, but it was probably ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Souls College, Oxford
All Souls College (official name: College of the Souls of All the Faithful Departed) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become fellows (i.e., full members of the college's governing body). It has no undergraduate members, but each year, recent graduate and postgraduate students at Oxford are eligible to apply for a small number of examination fellowships through a competitive examination (once described as "the hardest exam in the world") and, for those shortlisted after the examinations, an interview.Is the All Souls College entrance exam easy now? , ''The Guardian'', 17 May 2010. The college entrance is on the north side of |
Codrington Library
All Souls College Library, known until 2020 as the Codrington Library, is an academic library in the city of Oxford, England. It is the library of All Souls College, a graduate constituent college of the University of Oxford. The library in its current form was endowed by Christopher Codrington (1668–1710), a fellow of the college who amassed his fortune through his sugar plantation in the West Indies which was worked by enslaved people of African descent. Codrington bequeathed books worth £6,000, in addition to £10,000 in currency (the equivalent of approximately £1.2 million in modern terms). The library, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, begun in 1716, was completed in 1751 and has been in continuous use by scholars since then. It is Grade I listed on the National Heritage List for England. The modern collection comprises some 185,000 items, about a third of which were produced before 1800. The library's collections are particularly strong in Law, European History, Eccles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1745 In Architecture
This is a list of events related to architecture in 1745. Events Buildings and structures Buildings * The Great Lavra Bell Tower, the main bell tower of the ancient cave monastery of Kiev Pechersk Lavra in Kiev (modern-day capital of Ukraine), designed by Johann Gottfried Schädel, is completed (begun 1731). * Construction of the Wieskirche in Bavaria, designed by Dominikus Zimmermann, is begun (structure completed 1754) Births *May 5 – Carl August Ehrensvärd, Swedish naval officer, painter, author and neoclassical architect (died 1800) *July 20 – Henry Holland, English architect (died 1806) * Pierre-Adrien Pâris, French architect, painter and designer (died 1819) Deaths * February 23 – Joseph Effner, German architect and decorator (born 1687) * June 13 – Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, Neapolitan painter, sculptor and architect (died 1678) * October 15 – Maximilian von Welsch, German baroque architect (born 1671) * November 16 – Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignace François Broutin
Ignace François Broutin (La Bassée, 1690–1751) was a French Chevalier of the Order of St. Louis military officer, commander of Fort Rosalie among the Natchez people, and later an architect and Captain of Engineers of the King in the Province in colonial Louisiana. He is chiefly remembered for designing the Ursuline Convent, completed by 1753 and the oldest and only surviving French colonial building in New Orleans. A native of La Bassée in northern France, Broutin arrived in Louisiana in 1720 and married Madeleine la Maire (likely a cousin - his mother's maiden name was la Mairée), widow of François Philippe de Marigny and mother of Antoine Philippe de Marigny. In 1748, his daughter, Madeleine Marguerite de Broutin (1730 - 1805), married a grandson of French-Canadian judge and poet, René-Louis Chartier de Lotbinière, Louis-Xavier Martin de Lino de Chalmette. The de Lino plantation, called "Chalmette", became the site of the 1815 Battle of New Orleans, and was l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Ursuline Convent, New Orleans
Ursuline Convent (french: Couvent des Ursulines) was a series of historic Ursuline convents in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1727, at the request of Governor Étienne Perier, nuns from the Ursuline Convent of Rouen (Normandy) went to New Orleans to found a convent, run a hospital, and take care of educating young girls. The first building The first building for the Ursuline nuns in New Orleans was designed by Ignace François Broutin in 1727 when the nuns arrived in New Orleans, at the request of Governor Étienne Perier. Michael Zeringue (Johann Michael Zehringer), the King's Master Carpenter from Franconia, Bavaria and progenitor of all "Zeringue" families in Louisiana was the builder. Planning, collecting material, and construction took years. Existing drawings show the building in 1733, although it was not officially finished until the following year. ''Colombage'' (half-timbered) or ''briquette-entre-poteaux'' (brick-between-post) was the major form of French Colonial const ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1747 In Architecture
The year 1747 in architecture involved some significant events. Events Buildings and structures Buildings * Sanssouci in Potsdam, designed by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, is completed. * Schlosstheater Schönbrunn in Vienna, designed by Nicolò Pacassi, is completed. * Pálffy Palace (Bratislava) is built. * Reconstruction of church of Santi Quaranta Martiri e San Pasquale Baylon, Rome, by Giuseppe Sardi is completed. * Visitation of Mary Church (Ljubljana), designed by Candido Zulliani, is consecrated. * The tower of St. Mary's Church, Rotherhithe, London, is built by Lancelot Dowbiggin. * Usk Bridge (Usk), Monmouthshire, designed by William Edwards (architect), William Edwards, is completed. Births * Vincenzo Brenna, Florentine-born architect (died 1820 in architecture, 1820) Deaths * April 24 – Johann Georg Fischer (architect), Johann Georg Fischer, German architect (born 1673 in architecture, 1673) References 1747 works, Architecture Years in architecture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
