1550s in architecture information

1550–1554 – Church of Sant'Andrea in Via Flaminia, Rome, designed by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, constructed, the first church of the Italian Renaissance...

The 1550s decade ran from January 1, 1550, to December 31, 1559. January 6 – Spanish Captain Hernando de Santana founds the city of Valledupar, in modern-day...

This is a timeline of architecture, indexing the individual year in architecture pages. Notable events in architecture and related disciplines including...

published the first book in English on classical architecture in 1570. The first English houses in the new style were Burghley House (1550s–1580s) and Longleat...

1543–1548 – Mimar Sinan builds his first significant architectural commission, Şehzade Mosque in Istanbul. 1544 – King's College Chapel, Cambridge completed...

Orders of Architecture). 1563: John Shute – Publication of The First and Chief Groundes of Architecture, the first work in English on architecture. 1568:...

the single-domed space. In the 1550s and 1560s he experimented with an "octagonal baldaquin" design for the main dome, in which the dome rests on an octagonal...

1550 in music involved some significant events. Feb.26 – Robin Mallapert succeeded François Roussel as maestro di cappella at the Cappella Giulia at St...

The table of years in architecture is a tabular display of all years in architecture, for overview and quick navigation to any year. Contents: 2000s -...

related parts on cornices and other elements. Written during the 1550s, it was published in 1562, and was soon considered the most practical work for the...

moving into Mannerism and the Baroque by the 1550s or earlier. England had a strong tradition of literature in the English vernacular, which gradually increased...

Classical Ottoman architecture is a period in Ottoman architecture generally including the 16th and 17th centuries. The period is most strongly associated...

civil architecture is the Garcia d'Ávila Tower House in Bahia, now in ruins. The house had its beginnings in a fortified tower built in the 1550s and enlarged...

was conquered by the troops of Tsar Ivan the Terrible in the 1550s, with Kazan being taken in 1552. A large number of Tatars were forcibly converted...

publications in the 16th century. 1501 Italic type (cut by Francesco Griffo) is first used by Aldus Manutius at the Aldine Press in Venice, in an octavo...

skladateľ a muzikológ (in Slovak) Randy Sparks, who gave folk music a big choral sound, dies at 90 (subscription required) "DOLIU în lumea muzicii. S-a stins...

various recurrent elements in their architecture. The onion dome is for example a recurrent and important element in the architecture of Russian churches. Often...

There are three brief records (Anonymous Text; Architectural Masterpieces; Book of Architecture) in the library of Topkapı Palace, dictated by Sinan...

events and releases that have happened or are expected to happen in 2024 in music in the United States. 8 – Fantasia performed the national anthem at...

circulated by Androuet du Cerceau in the 1550s. The many doors of the former town hall, a complex of buildings built mainly in the 16th and 17th centuries,...

manor house begun around 1538 and completed in the late 1550s, with a vernacular stable court (1675), situated in Barrington, near Ilminster, Somerset, England...

and Miranda do Douro in the 1550s, erected with King Johns support. It supplanted Manueline as the favoured architectural style in Portugal. Miguel de...

frescoes framed by classical columns in the Hall of the Muses of the Villa Godi in the 1550s. In his early works in Vicenza in the 1540s, he sometimes emulated...

monastery was dissolved in the 14th century, the site was acquired by the Knights of Malta, who had the church rebuilt in the 1550s. In 1760, the papal nephew...

The decade of the 1540s in music (years 1540–1549) involved some significant events. 1540 4 April – Cristobal Morales leaves the position of master of...

is a French 1550s painting attributed to François Clouet, located in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen. According to Eckhardt Knab, writing in The Dictionary...

decorated in the 1550s for the then regent the James Hamilton, Earl of Arran. Other examples include the ceiling at Prestongrange House, undertaken in 1581...