1590s in architecture

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1580s . 1590s in architecture . 1600s

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Buildings and structures

See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1590

Buildings

Rialto Bridge, Venice, Italy

Fushimi Castle in Kyoto, Japan

• 1590
  • Sinan Pasha Mosque in Damascus, Syria, is completed.
  • Court theatre at Sabbioneta (begun 1588), designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, is completed.
  • Church of Tolentini, Venice, Italy, is designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi; it will not be completed until 1714.
• 1590–1595 – Belvedere (fort) in Florence, Italy, designed by Bernardo Buontalenti, is constructed.
• 1590–1597 – Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire, England, designed by Robert Smythson, is constructed.^[1]
• 1591
  • Rialto Bridge in Venice, designed by Antonio da Ponte, is completed.
  • Church of San Salvatore in Lauro in Rome is designed by Ottaviano Nonni.
• 1592 – Fushimi Castle in Kyoto, Japan was begun.
• 1592 – Church of Il Redentore on Giudecca in Venice, designed by Andrea Palladio, is consecrated.
• 1592 - Crooked House of Windsor original butcher-shop building, demolished 1687, but rebuilt exactly the same way after legal complications.
• 1596 – Villa Ferretti in the Veneto, designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, is built.
• 1596? – Kasthamandap temple in Kathmandu, Nepal.
• 1593–1597 – Rushton Triangular Lodge in Northamptonshire, England, is designed and constructed by Sir Thomas Tresham, symbolising his Catholic recusancy.
• 1597
  • Villa Molin in the Veneto, designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, is completed.
  • Newark Castle on the Firth of Clyde in Scotland is rebuilt.
  • Ālī Qāpū imperial palace, Isfahan, Iran, is first used ceremonially.
• 1599 – In Padua (Veneto), renovation begins on the Palazzo del Capitaniato arch and clock tower (expanded 1599–1605).

Events

• 1590: Giovanni Antonio Rusconi's Della architettura is published posthumously in Venice.
• 1592: May 23 – Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98) begin, leading to the destruction by fire of many Korean buildings.

Births

• 1591: December 22 – Tommaso Dingli, Maltese architect (died 1666)
• 1596
  • November 1 – Pietro da Cortona, Italian baroque architect and painter (died 1669)
  • Francesco Buonamici, Italian Baroque architect, painter and engraver (died 1677)^[2]
• 1598
  • January 13 – François Mansart, French baroque architect (died 1666)
  • December 7 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian baroque architect, sculptor and painter (died 1680)
  • Baldassarre Longhena, Venetian baroque architect (died 1682)
• 1599: September 25 – Francesco Borromini, Ticinese-born baroque architect (died 1667)

Deaths

• 1592: April 13 – Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian architect and sculptor (born 1511)
• c.1592 – Girolamo Cassar, Maltese architect (born c.1520)
• 1595 – Antonio da Ponte, Swiss-born Venetian architect (born 1512)
• 1597: January 15 – Juan de Herrera, Spanish architect and geometrician (born 1530)

References

1. Burke, James (1978). Connections. London: Macmillan. p. 162. ISBN 0-333-24827-9.
2. Oechslin, Werner (1972). "BUONAMICI, Francesco". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol. 15. Archived from the original on 23 January 2020.