1650s in architecture

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Overview of the events of the 1650s in architecture

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Buildings and structures

See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1650

Buildings

• 1650
  • The Marian column in Prague is erected (destroyed 1918).
  • Talar Ashraf palace in Isfahan, Persia, is built.
  • (approximate date) The Khaju Bridge in Isfahan is built.
• 1651
  • Collegiate Church of Saint Magdalena and Saint Stanisław in Poznań (Poland) is started (completed c.1701).
  • Karamon of Ueno Tōshō-gū shrine in Tokyo is built.
• 1652 – Church of the Resurrection, Kostroma.
• 1653
  • The Taj Mahal mausoleum at Agra in India (begun in 1630 and probably designed by Ustad Ahmad Lahauri) is completed.
  • The Radziwiłł Palace, Vilnius, is completed.
• 1654 – Construction of Skokloster Castle in Sweden to the design of Caspar Vogel begins (completed 1676).
• 1656
  • The Jama Masjid, Delhi, is completed.
  • The colonnade of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is started by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
• 1658
  • Terraced houses at 52–55 Newington Green in London, perhaps by Thomas Pidcock, are completed.^[1]
  • St Nicholas Abbey (plantation house) in Saint Peter, Barbados, is begun.
• 1659
  • Trashigang Dzong in Bhutan is built.
  • Ca' Pesaro on the Grand Canal (Venice) is started by Baldassarre Longhena (completed 1710).
  • Saleh Kamboh Mosque in Lahore is founded.
  • Tomb of Nadira Begum in Lahore is started.

Births

• 1650: December 1 (bapt.) – William Talman, English architect, landscape designer and collector (died 1719)
• 1651: March 2 – Carlo Gimach, Maltese architect, engineer and poet (died 1730)
• 1651: September 3 – Roger North, English lawyer, biographer and amateur of the arts (died 1734)
• 1654: May 23 – Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, Swedish baroque architect (died 1728)
• 1655: July 7 – Christoph Dientzenhofer, Bavarian baroque architect (died 1722)^[2]
• 1656: July 20 – Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Austrian baroque architect (died 1723)

Deaths

• 1652: June 21 – Inigo Jones, English architect and theatrical designer (born 1573)
• 1655: July 15 – Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (born 1570)

References

1. ^ Historic England (1954). "52-55 Newington Green (1293320)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2015-03-15. "one of the most remarkable groups of seventeenth-century buildings in London."
2. ^ "Christoph Dientzenhofer – German architect". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 16 January 2018.