1530s in architecture

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Buildings and structures

Buildings

• 1531 – Kõpu Lighthouse on Hiiumaa begins operation.
• 1532–1536
  • Rood screen in King's College Chapel, Cambridge in England is erected.^[1]
  • Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne in Rome, designed by Baldassare Peruzzi, is built.
• c. 1532–1537 – Palazzo Massimo di Pirro in Rome, designed by Giovanni Mangone, is built.
• 1532
  • Church of the Ascension (the "White Column") at Kolomenskoye, near Moscow, is built.
  • Church of the Royal Monastery of Brou in France (begun 1506) is completed.
• 1533 – Work begins on La Fortaleza in Puerto Rico.
• 1534 – Regensburg Cathedral in Germany is completed after 259 years of work.
• c. 1535–1537 –
  Casa Aliaga in Lima
  (Ciudad de los Reyes), Peru, is built.
• 1535 – After 258 years of work since 1277, St Alphege Church in Solihull, England, is completed.
• 1537 – Work begins on the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice, designed by Jacopo Sansovino.
• 1538 – Work begins on
  • Nonsuch Palace in Surrey, England.
  • The Piazza del Campidoglio on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, designed by Michelangelo. Pope Paul III moves the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius to the Capitoline Hill.
  • Adding bastions to the city walls of Nuremberg, to the design of Maltese military engineer Antonio Falzon.
• 1539 – Work begins on the first batch of Device Forts on the coast of England, including Cowes Castle on the Isle of Wight.

Events

• 1537 –
  classical orders
  into canonical form.

Births

• 1530 –
  1593
  )
• c. 1531 –
  1608
  )
• 1533 –
  1609
  )
• 1535
  • Early? -
    1614
    )
  • June 18 –
    1604
    )
• c. 1536 –
  1606
  )
• 1538 –
  1608
  )

Deaths

• 1530: Approximate date –
  1456
  )
• 1532 –
  1470
  )
• 1534: December 27 –
  1453
  )
• 1537: January 6 –
  1481
  )
• 1539 –
  1460
  )

References