1500s in architecture

1500s in architecture

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Buildings

* About 1500 - Chateau de Blois largely rebuilt.
* 1500 - St. Anne's Church in Vilnius is completed.
* 1501 - Expansion of Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh.
* 1501 - Chichester Cross is built in Chichester, England.
* 1502 - Tempietto, San Pietro in Montorio, Rome designed by Donato Bramante is completed.
* 1505 - Archangel Cathedral in Moscow begun.
* 1506 - Construction of St. Peter's Basilica begins.
* 1507 - Rebuilding of Wawel Castle in Kraków begins.

Events

* 1503 - Pope Julius II becomes Pope. He would later be patron to Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo.

Births

* October 1 1507 - Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (died 1573)
* November 30 1508 - Andrea Palladio (died 1580)

Deaths

* 1502 - Francesco di Giorgio (born 1439)


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