1650s in architecture

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Architecture timeline

Buildings and structures

See also:Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1650

Buildings

Taj Mahalcompleted

Ca' Pesaroon theGrand Canal (Venice)

• 1650
  • TheMarian columninPragueis erected (destroyed1918).
  • Talar Ashraf palace inIsfahan,Persia,is built.
  • (approximate date)TheKhaju Bridgein Isfahan is built.
• 1651
  • Collegiate Church of Saint Magdalena and Saint StanisławinPoznań(Poland) is started (completed c.1701).
  • KaramonofUeno Tōshō-gūshrine in Tokyo is built.
• 1652 – Church of the Resurrection,Kostroma.
• 1653
  • TheTaj Mahalmausoleum atAgrainIndia(begun in1630and probably designed byUstad Ahmad Lahauri) is completed.
  • TheRadziwiłł Palace, Vilnius,is completed.
• 1654 – Construction ofSkokloster Castlein Sweden to the design of Caspar Vogel begins (completed 1676).
• 1656
  • TheJama Masjid, Delhi,is completed.
  • ThecolonnadeofSt. Peter's BasilicainRomeis started byGian Lorenzo Bernini.
• 1658
  • Terraced housesat 52–55Newington Greenin London, perhaps by Thomas Pidcock, are completed.
  • St Nicholas Abbey(plantation house) inSaint Peter, Barbados,is begun.
• 1659
  • Trashigang DzonginBhutanis built.
  • Ca' Pesaroon theGrand Canal (Venice)is started byBaldassarre Longhena(completed1710).
  • Saleh Kamboh MosqueinLahoreis founded.
  • Tomb of Nadira Begumin Lahore is started.

Births

• 1650: December 1(bapt.)–William Talman,English architect, landscape designer and collector (died1719)
• 1651: March 2 –Carlo Gimach,Maltese architect, engineer and poet (died1730)
• 1651: September 3 –Roger North,English lawyer, biographer and amateur of the arts (died1734)
• 1654: May 23 –Nicodemus Tessin the Younger,Swedish baroque architect (died1728)
• 1655: July 7 –Christoph Dientzenhofer,Bavarian baroque architect (died1722)
• 1656: July 20 –Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach,Austrian baroque architect (died1723)

Deaths

• 1652: June 21 –Inigo Jones,English architect and theatrical designer (born1573)
• 1655: July 15 –Girolamo Rainaldi,Italian architect (born1570)