1690s in architecture
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| 1680s 1680s in architecture -Buildings:* 1680 - St Clement Danes in London, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed.* 1682 - Abingdon County Hall in Oxfordshire, England, designed by Christopher Kempster, is completed.... · 1690s in architecture · 1700 1700 in architecture The year 1700 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca* Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter Apostle* Federal Hall* Slushko Palace* Wren Building - Completed in Williamsburg, Virginia .... |
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Buildings
- 1690 - The Sindone ChapelSindone ChapelThe Sindone Chapel is a Baroque chapel outside Turin Cathedral, built by the architect Guarino Guarini in Turin Piedmont, Italy at the end of the seventeenth century ....
in TurinTurinTurin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...
, designed by Guarino Guarini is completed. - 1695 - Wren Library, CambridgeWren Library, CambridgeThe Wren Library is the library of Trinity College in Cambridge. It was designed by Christopher Wren in 1676 and completed in 1695.The library is a single large room built over an open colonnade on the ground floor of Nevile's Court...
, the library of Trinity CollegeTrinity College, CambridgeTrinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...
, designed by Christopher WrenChristopher WrenSir Christopher Wren FRS is one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history.He used to be accorded responsibility for rebuilding 51 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including his masterpiece, St. Paul's Cathedral, on Ludgate Hill, completed in 1710...
, is completed. - 1696 - Main façades of Chatsworth House completed to designs of William TalmanWilliam Talman (architect)William Talman was an English architect and landscape designer. A pupil of Sir Christopher Wren, in 1678 he and Thomas Apprice gained the office of King's Waiter in the Port of London...
in a pioneering English BaroqueEnglish BaroqueEnglish Baroque is a term sometimes used to refer to the developments in English architecture that were parallel to the evolution of Baroque architecture in continental Europe between the Great Fire of London and the Treaty of Utrecht ....
style. - 1699 - Castle HowardCastle HowardCastle Howard is a stately home in North Yorkshire, England, north of York. One of the grandest private residences in Britain, most of it was built between 1699 and 1712 for the 3rd Earl of Carlisle, to a design by Sir John Vanbrugh...
(completed 17121712 in architectureThe year 1712 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* Castle Howard , designed by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor, is completed.* Roehampton House in England, designed by Thomas Archer is completed....
), designed by Sir John VanbrughJohn VanbrughSir John Vanbrugh – 26 March 1726) was an English architect and dramatist, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. He wrote two argumentative and outspoken Restoration comedies, The Relapse and The Provoked Wife , which have become enduring stage favourites...
and Nicholas HawksmoorNicholas HawksmoorNicholas Hawksmoor was a British architect born in Nottinghamshire, probably in East Drayton.-Life:Hawksmoor was born in Nottinghamshire in 1661, into a yeoman farming family, almost certainly in East Drayton, Nottinghamshire. On his death he was to leave property at nearby Ragnall, Dunham and a...
, is begun. - 1690-1700 - two Baroque palaces in VilniusVilniusVilnius is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 560,190 as of 2010. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the capital of Vilnius County...
, Sapieha PalaceSapieha Palace in VilniusSapieha Palace is a High Baroque palace in Sapiegos str., Antakalnis district of Vilnius, Lithuania. It is the only surviving of several palaces formerly belonging to the Sapieha family in the city....
and Slushko PalaceSlushko PalaceSlushko Palace in Vilnius, Lithuania is a Baroque palace situated on the left bank of Neris River in the Old Town elderate, former Antakalnis suburb of the city....
, designed by Pietro PertiPietro PertiGiovanni Pietro Perti or Peretti was an Italian Baroque sculptor and architect, regarded as one of the leading European sculptors on the verge of the 18th century...
, have been erected. - 1695-1699 - CraigiehallCraigiehallCraigiehall is a late-17th-century country house, which now serves as the Headquarters of the 2nd Division of the British Army. It is located close to Cramond, around west of central Edinburgh, Scotland....
, near Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by Sir William BruceWilliam Bruce (architect)Sir William Bruce of Kinross, 1st Baronet was a Scottish gentleman-architect, "the effective founder of classical architecture in Scotland," as Howard Colvin observes...
Births
- 1690 - Richard CasselsRichard CasselsRichard Cassels , who anglicised his name to Richard Castle, ranks with Edward Lovett Pearce as one of the greatest architects working in Ireland in the 18th century. Cassels was born in 1690 in Kassel, Germany. Although German, his family were of French origin, descended from the...
(died 17511751 in architectureThe year 1751 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* The Hofkirche in Dresden, Germany, designed by Gaetano Chiaveri , is completed.-Deaths:* Richard Cassels...
) - 1691 - James BurroughJames Burrough (architect)Sir James Burrough was an English academic, antiquary, and amateur architect.-Biography:The son of James Burrough, M.D., of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, he was born on 1 September 1691. Educated at the grammar school at Bury for eight years, he entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1708....
(died 17641764 in architectureThe year 1764 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* The Theatre Royal, Bristol, designed by James Paty, is completed....
) - June 17, 1691 - Giovanni Paolo PanniniGiovanni Paolo PanniniGiovanni Paolo Panini or Pannini was a painter and architect, who worked in Rome and is mainly known as one of the vedutisti ....
(died 17651765 in architectureThe year 1765 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire, England, designed by Robert Adam is completed.-Deaths:* October 21 - Giovanni Paolo Pannini...
) - 1692 - Pietro Antonio TrezziniPietro Antonio TrezziniPietro Antonio Trezzini was a Swiss architect from the Trezzini family who worked primarily in St. Petersburg. After several years of training in Milan, Trezzini arrived in St...
(died after 1760) - 13 September 1693 - Joseph Emanuel Fischer von ErlachJoseph Emanuel Fischer von ErlachJoseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach, also Fischer von Erlach the younger was an Austrianarchitect of the baroque, Rococo and baroque classicism.-Life and career:...
born in ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
(died 17421742 in architectureSee also:1741 in architecture,other events of 1781,1743 in architecture and thearchitecture timeline.-Births:* March 13 - Karl Friedrich Schinkel * Robert Mills -Deaths:...
) - April 25, 1694 - Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of BurlingtonRichard Boyle, 3rd Earl of BurlingtonRichard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork PC , born in Yorkshire, England, was the son of Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington and 3rd Earl of Cork...
(died 17531753 in architectureThe year 1753 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* Horse Guards in London, designed by William Kent and John Vardy, is completed....
) - September 26, 1694 - Martin SchmidMartin SchmidMartin Schmid was a Swiss Jesuit priest, missionary, composer and architect who was active in the Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos in present day Bolivia....
(died 17721772 in architectureThe year 1772 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* The Basilica of the Vierzehnheiligen, in Bavaria, is completed.* Completion of Dragon House in Potsdam by command of King Frederick the Great...
) - 1695 - Roger MorrisRoger MorrisRoger Morris may refer to:*Roger Morris , 2000s novelist*Roger Morris *Roger Morris *Robert Morris , signer to the United States Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution*Roger Morris , British architect*Roger Morris , historian and author of...
- (died 17491749 in architectureSee also:1748 in architecture,other events of 17491750 in architecture and thearchitecture timeline.-Buildings:* Work begins on King's Chapel, in Boston, designed by Peter Harrison....
) - 1698 - October 23 - Ange-Jacques GabrielAnge-Jacques GabrielAnge-Jacques Gabriel was the most prominent French architect of his generation.Born to a Parisian family of architects and initially trained by the royal architect Robert de Cotte and his father , whom he assisted in the creation of the Place Royale at Bordeaux , the younger Gabriel...
(died 17821782 in architectureThe year 1782 in architecture involved some significant events.-Deaths:* January 4 - Ange-Jacques Gabriel * June 18 - John Wood the Younger...
) - 1699 - Edward Lovett PearceEdward Lovett PearceSir Edward Lovett Pearce was an Irish architect, and the chief exponent of palladianism in Ireland. He is thought to have initially studied as an architect under his father's first cousin, Sir John Vanbrugh. He is best known for the Irish Houses of Parliament in Dublin, and his work on Castletown...
(died 17331733 in architectureThe year 1733 in architecture involved some significant events.-Deaths:* Edward Lovett Pearce...
) - 1699 - Matthew Brettingham the Elder (died 17691769 in architectureThe year 1769 in architecture involved some significant events.-Events:* In Bath, England, St James' Church is designed by John Palmer of Bath .-Buildings:...
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Deaths
- February 8, 1691 - Carlo RainaldiCarlo RainaldiCarlo Rainaldi was an Italian architect of the Baroque period.Born in Rome, Rainaldi was one of the leading architects of 17th century Rome, known for a certain grandeur in his designs. He worked at first with his father, Girolamo Rainaldi, a late Mannerist architect in Rome. After his father's...
(born 1611)