1450s in architecture
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Events
- 1452 â Leon Battista Alberti completes writing De Re Aedificatoria
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- 1450
- Reconstruction of Sforza Castle in Milan as a palace begun
- Tomb of Ahi Evren in KırÅehir, Anatolia, is begun
- 1451â1457 â Villa Medici in Fiesole, Tuscany, designed by Michelozzo or Leon Battista Alberti, built
- c. 1451
- Palazzo Rucellai in Florence, probably designed by Leon Battista Alberti and executed, at least in part, by Bernardo Rossellino, substantially completed
- Earliest date for start of construction of Jahaz Mahal in the Delhi Sultanate
- 1452 â Hospices de Beaune in France, probably designed by Jacques Wiscrère, opened
- 1456 â Ospedale Maggiore in Milan begun by Filarete.[1]
- 1457 â Edo Castle in Japan first fortified by Åta DÅkan
- 1458 â Pitti Palace in Florence begun by Bartolommeo Ammanati and perhaps Brunelleschi
- 1459 â Sixty Dome Mosque (Shaá¹ Gombuj Moshjid) in Khalifatabad (modern-day Bagerhat District of Bangladesh) completed
- Approximate date â Palazzo Pisani Moretta on the Grand Canal (Venice) built
Births
- 1450: Bartolomeo Montagna, Italian painter and architect (died 1523)
- 1452: April 15 â Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath (died 1519)
- c. 1456: Bramantino, born Bartolomeo Suardi, Milanese painter and architect (died c. 1530)
Deaths
- 1459: c. October 25 â Khan Jahan Ali, Muslim Sufi saint, local ruler and architectural patron
