1510s in architecture
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Events
- 1511 â Dome of Seville Cathedral collapses.
- 1512: March 5: West tower of Pieterskerk, Leiden, collapses.[1]
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- 1510â1520 â Tower ("Stump") of St Botolph's Church, Boston, England, completed.
- 1510
- Alcázar de Colón ("Columbus' Palace") in Santo Domingo, the 22-room home of Don Diego Columbus.
- Sheffield Manor in Yorkshire, England.
- 1511 â All Saints' Church, Wittenberg (SchloÃkirche) completed to a design by Conrad Pflüger.
- 1513 â Work on New Cathedral, Salamanca, begun.
- 1514 â St Mark's Campanile in Venice completed in final form.
- 1515 â Cardinal Wolsey begins rebuilding Hampton Court Palace on the River Thames near London.
- 1515â1518 â Ancienne Douane (Haguenau) built.
- About 1515 â In England
- King's College Chapel, Cambridge completed by John Wastell.
- Spire of St James' Church, Louth, Lincolnshire completed.
- 1517 â Shisha Gumbad tomb in Delhi, India, completed.
- 1518
- Tomb of Sikandar Lodi, Delhi, India, completed.
- Town walls of Loreto, Marche, begun by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger.
- 1519
- Belém Tower at the mouth of the Tagus in Portugal completed.
- St. Olaf's Church, Tallinn in Estonia completed.
Births
- 1511: July 3 â Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and biographer (died 1574)
- 1511 â Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian sculptor and architect (died 1592)
- 1512 â Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (died 1572)
- c.1513 â Pirro Ligorio, Italian architect and painter (died 1583)
Deaths
- 1511 â Simón de Colonia, Spanish architect and sculptor
- 1514: March 11 â Donato Bramante, Italian architect (born 1444)
- 1515
- April 10 â Mateus Fernandes, Portuguese architect
- Giovanni Giocondo, Italian friar, architect and classical scholar (born c. 1433)
- c. 1516 â Giuliano da Sangallo, Florentine sculptor, architect and military engineer (born 1443)
- 1518 â John Wastell, English architect (born 1460)
- 1519: May 2 â Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath (born 1452)