1470s in architecture
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Buildings and structures
Buildings
- 1470 â Church and lighthouse tower, Westkapelle, Walcheren, completed
- 1471 â Provand's Lordship, Glasgow, Scotland, built.[1]
- 1472â1474 â The Ordos Wall, first substantial section of the Ming Great Wall of China, built
- 1473 â Work on Cologne Cathedral west front and towers suspended until 19th century
- 1474 â Nave vault of St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, completed
- 1475â1479 â Dormition Cathedral, Moscow, designed by Aristotele Fioravanti, built
- 1479 â Munich Frauenkirche completed by Jörg von Halsbach
Births
- 1475: March 6 â Michelangelo, born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni in Caprese, Tuscany, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet and engineer (died 1564)
- 1475: September 6 â Sebastiano Serlio born in Bologna, Italian Mannerist architect and theoretician working in France (died c. 1554)
Deaths
- 1472: April 25 â Leon Battista Alberti, Italian architect and polymath (born 1404)
- 1472? â Michelozzo, Florentine architect and sculptor (born c. 1396)
