1590s in architecture

Buildings

• 1590
  • Sinan Pasha Mosque in Damascus, Syria, is completed.
  • Court theatre at Sabbioneta (begun 1588), designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, is completed.
  • Church of Tolentini, Venice, Italy, is designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi; it will not be completed until 1714.
• 1590–1595 – Belvedere (fort) in Florence, Italy, designed by Bernardo Buontalenti, is constructed.
• 1590–1597 – Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire, England, designed by Robert Smythson, is constructed.^[1]
• 1591
  • Rialto Bridge in Venice, designed by Antonio da Ponte, is completed.
  • Church of San Salvatore in Lauro in Rome is designed by Ottaviano Nonni.
• 1592 – Fushimi Castle in Kyoto, Japan was begun.
• 1592 – Church of Il Redentore on Giudecca in Venice, designed by Andrea Palladio, is consecrated.
• 1592 - Crooked House of Windsor original butcher-shop building, demolished 1687, but rebuilt exactly the same way after legal complications.
• 1596 – Villa Ferretti in the Veneto, designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, is built.
• 1596? – Kasthamandap temple in Kathmandu, Nepal.
• 1593–1597 – Rushton Triangular Lodge in Northamptonshire, England, is designed and constructed by Sir Thomas Tresham, symbolising his Catholic recusancy.
• 1597
  • Villa Molin in the Veneto, designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, is completed.
  • Newark Castle on the Firth of Clyde in Scotland is rebuilt.
  • ĀlÄ« QāpÅ« imperial palace, Isfahan, Iran, is first used ceremonially.
• 1599 – In Padua (Veneto), renovation begins on the Palazzo del Capitaniato arch and clock tower (expanded 1599–1605).