1538 in architecture

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 – Sebastiano Serlio publishes the first volume of his architectural treatise, Tutte l'opere d'archittura et prospetiva, in Venice, putting the classical orders into canonical form.

Births

• 1530 – Juan de Herrera, Spanish architect (died 1593)
• c. 1531 – Bernardo Buontalenti, Florentine architect, stage designer, military engineer and artist (died 1608)
• 1533 – Giovanni Antonio Dosio, Italian architect and sculptor (died 1609)
• 1535
  • Early? - Robert Smythson, English architect (died 1614)
  • June 18 – Jakub Krčín, Czech architect (died 1604)
• c. 1536 – Ottaviano Nonni, Bolognese architect, sculptor and painter working in Rome (died 1606)
• 1538 – Pablo de Céspedes, Spanish painter, poet and architect (died 1608)

Deaths

• 1530: Approximate date – Bramantino, Milanese painter and architect (born c.1456)
• 1532 – Andrea Riccio, Italian sculptor and architect (born c.1470)
• 1534: December 27 – Antonio da Sangallo the Elder, Florentine architect (born 1453)
• 1537: January 6 – Baldassare Peruzzi, Sienese architect and painter working in Rome (born 1481)
• 1539 – Marco Palmezzano, Italian painter and architect from Forli (born 1460)

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