1590s in architecture

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Overview of the events of the 1590s in architecture

List of years in architecture

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* … 1580
* 1581
* 1582
* 1583
* 1584
* 1585
* 1586

* 1587
* 1588
* 1589
* 1590
* 1591
* 1592
* 1593

* 1594
* 1595
* 1596
* 1597
* 1598
* 1599
* 1600 …

In music
1587
1588
1589
1590
1591
1592
1593

In art
1587
1588
1589
1590
1591
1592
1593

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## Buildings and structures

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See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1590

### Buildings

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Rialto Bridge, Venice, Italy Fushimi Castle in Kyoto, Japan

* 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.
* Ālī Qāpū 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).

## Events

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* 1590: Giovanni Antonio Rusconi's Della architettura is published posthumously in Venice.
* 1592: May 23 – Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98) begin, leading to the destruction by fire of many Korean buildings.

## Births

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* 1591: December 22 – Tommaso Dingli, Maltese architect (died 1666)
* 1596
* November 1 – Pietro da Cortona, Italian baroque architect and painter (died 1669)
* Francesco Buonamici, Italian Baroque architect, painter and engraver (died 1677)[2]
* 1598
* January 13 – François Mansart, French baroque architect (died 1666)
* December 7 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian baroque architect, sculptor and painter (died 1680)
* Baldassarre Longhena, Venetian baroque architect (died 1682)
* 1599: September 25 – Francesco Borromini, Ticinese-born baroque architect (died 1667)

## Deaths

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* 1592: April 13 – Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian architect and sculptor (born 1511)
* c.1592 – Girolamo Cassar, Maltese architect (born c.1520)
* 1595 – Antonio da Ponte, Swiss-born Venetian architect (born 1512)
* 1597: January 15 – Juan de Herrera, Spanish architect and geometrician (born 1530)

## References

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1. ^ Burke, James (1978). Connections. London: Macmillan. p. 162\. ISBN 0-333-24827-9.
2. ^ Oechslin, Werner (1972). "BUONAMICI, Francesco". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol. 15\. Archived from the original on 23 January 2020.

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