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1640s in architecture
Summary
List of years in architecture
(
table
)
…
1630
1631
1632
1633
1634
1635
1636
1637
1638
1639
1640
1641
1642
1643
1644
1645
1646
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1650
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1630s
.
1640s in architecture
.
1650s
Architecture timeline
Buildings and structures
edit
Buildings
edit
The
Taj Mahal
in
Agra
, India
The
Changdeokgung
in
Seoul
, Korea
The
Taj Mahal
in
Agra
, India, is under construction, probably by
Ustad Ahmad Lahori
, to a commission by
Shah Jahan
. The
mosque
and
jawab
in the complex are completed in 1643.
1640
Børsen
in
Copenhagen
, designed by
Lorentz
and
Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger
and begun in 1619, is completed.
59–60
Lincoln's Inn Fields
, London (later known as Lindsey House), probably designed by
Inigo Jones
and begun about 1638, is completed.
[1]
Butterwalk,
Dartmouth, England
, is completed.
1641
Tron Kirk
in
Edinburgh
, Scotland, designed by
John Mylne
, is dedicated.
The
Mauritshuis
at
The Hague
in the
Dutch Republic
, designed by
Jacob van Campen
and
Pieter Post
, is completed.
1645–1648 – Main structure of
Potala Palace
in
Lhasa
, Tibet, is built.
1646
The
St. Mary Magdalene Chapel, Dingli
, Malta, is rebuilt after the original chapel had collapsed.
Chehel Sotoun
in
Isfahan
, Persia, is completed.
New
Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris
, is begun to designs of 1636 by
Christophe Gamard
; it will not be completed until the later 18th century.
1647 – The
Changdeokgung
in
Seoul
, Korea, is reconstructed.
1648 – Buildings commissioned by
Shah Jahan
in India:
April 6:
Red Fort
,
Delhi
, is completed to designs by
Ustad Ahmad Lahori
.
Jama Mosque, Agra
, is built.
Births
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1642 –
Giovanni Barbara
, Maltese architect and military engineer (died
1728
)
c.1645 –
William Winde
, English gentleman architect (died
1722
)
1645: December 27 –
Giovanni Antonio Viscardi
, Swiss baroque architect working in Bavaria (died
1713
)
1646: April 16 –
Jules Hardouin Mansart
, French baroque architect (died
1708
)
1647 –
Henry Aldrich
, English polymath and amateur architect (died
1710
)
1648 –
Pietro Perti
, Ticinese architect and sculptor working in Lithuania (died
1714
)
Deaths
edit
1646: April 10 –
Santino Solari
, Italian-born architect working in Salzburg (born
1576
)
1647: August 24 –
Nicholas Stone
, English sculptor and architect (born
1586/7
)
References
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^
"Lincoln's Inn Fields: Nos. 59 and 60 (Lindsey House)".
Survey of London
: volume
3
: St Giles-in-the-Fields, pt
I
: Lincoln's Inn Fields
(1912), pp. 96–103. Retrieved 2015-03-17.