1540s in architecture

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Events

• 1545 – Part of the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice collapses, causing the architect, Jacopo Sansovino, to be imprisoned briefly.
• 1546 –
  Michelangelo Buonarroti is made chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica
  in Rome.
• 1549 – The spire of Lincoln Cathedral in England is blown down.^[1]

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• 1540
  • Kamran's Baradari in Lahore
    completed
  • Approximate date of completion of some of the Device Forts on the coast of England: Calshot, Deal, Sandgate, Sandown and Walmer Castles
  • Approximate date of the construction of Santa Cecilia Chapel in Għajnsielem, Gozo, Malta
• c. 1541
  • Portland Castle on the Isle of Portland, England, completed
  • Qila-i-Kuhna Mosque in the Purana Qila in Delhi completed
• 1541–1544 – Old Hall of Berkhamsted School in England built
• 1542
  • Palladian villas of Veneto; the neighbouring Villa Piovene
    is completed at about the same time
  • Church of
    Bramante, is completed at its original location in Lugano
    , Switzerland
  • Approximate date of completion of more of the Device Forts on the coast of England:
    East Cowes Castle on the Isle of Wight and Sandsfoot Castle at Weymouth, Dorset

• 1543 – Lighthouse of Genoa completed in surviving form
• 1543–1548 – Mimar Sinan builds his first significant architectural commission, Şehzade Mosque in Istanbul.
• 1544 – King's College Chapel, Cambridge completed
• 1544–1549 –
  Xuanfu–Datong section of Ming Great Wall
  of China constructed
• c. 1546 – Loggetta del Sansovino of St Mark's Campanile in Piazza San Marco, Venice, designed by Jacopo Sansovino, is completed
• 1547
  • Construction of the Château de Chambord ceases on the death of Francis I of France
  • Yarmouth Castle on the Isle of Wight is completed
• 1548–1549 – Villa Pojana, one of the Palladian villas of Veneto, is built.

Births

• c.1540 –
  1617
  )
• 1548: September 2 –
  1616
  )

Deaths

• 1543: June 25 – Giovanni Mangone, Italian sculptor, architect, military engineer and antiquarian
• 1546
  • August 3 –
    1484
    )
  • November 1 – Giulio Romano, Italian painter and architect (born c. 1449)

References