1650s in architecture

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Overview of the events of the 1650s in architecture

List of years in architecture

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* … 1640
* 1641
* 1642
* 1643
* 1644
* 1645
* 1646

* 1647
* 1648
* 1649
* 1650
* 1651
* 1652
* 1653

* 1654
* 1655
* 1656
* 1657
* 1658
* 1659
* 1660 …

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* Buildings and structures
* Literature
* Music
* Philosophy
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## Buildings and structures

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See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1650

### Buildings

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Taj Mahal completed Ca' Pesaro on the Grand Canal (Venice)

* 1650
* The Marian column in Prague is erected (destroyed 1918).
* Talar Ashraf palace in Isfahan, Persia, is built.
* (approximate date) The Khaju Bridge in Isfahan is built.
* 1651
* Collegiate Church of Saint Magdalena and Saint Stanisław in Poznań (Poland) is started (completed c.1701).
* Karamon of Ueno Tōshō-gū shrine in Tokyo is built.
* 1652 – Church of the Resurrection, Kostroma.
* 1653
* The Taj Mahal mausoleum at Agra in India (begun in 1630 and probably designed by Ustad Ahmad Lahauri) is completed.
* The Radziwiłł Palace, Vilnius, is completed.
* 1654 – Construction of Skokloster Castle in Sweden to the design of Caspar Vogel begins (completed 1676).
* 1656
* The Jama Masjid, Delhi, is completed.
* The colonnade of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is started by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
* 1658
* Terraced houses at 52–55 Newington Green in London, perhaps by Thomas Pidcock, are completed.[1]
* St Nicholas Abbey (plantation house) in Saint Peter, Barbados, is begun.
* 1659
* Trashigang Dzong in Bhutan is built.
* Ca' Pesaro on the Grand Canal (Venice) is started by Baldassarre Longhena (completed 1710).
* Saleh Kamboh Mosque in Lahore is founded.
* Tomb of Nadira Begum in Lahore is started.

## Births

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* 1650: December 1 (bapt.) – William Talman, English architect, landscape designer and collector (died 1719)
* 1651: March 2 – Carlo Gimach, Maltese architect, engineer and poet (died 1730)
* 1651: September 3 – Roger North, English lawyer, biographer and amateur of the arts (died 1734)
* 1654: May 23 – Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, Swedish baroque architect (died 1728)
* 1655: July 7 – Christoph Dientzenhofer, Bavarian baroque architect (died 1722)[2]
* 1656: July 20 – Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Austrian baroque architect (died 1723)

## Deaths

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* 1652: June 21 – Inigo Jones, English architect and theatrical designer (born 1573)
* 1655: July 15 – Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (born 1570)

## References

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1. ^ Historic England (1954). "52-55 Newington Green (1293320)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2015-03-15. "one of the most remarkable groups of seventeenth-century buildings in London."
2. ^ "Christoph Dientzenhofer – German architect". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 16 January 2018.

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