1450s in architecture

Events

• 1452 – Leon Battista Alberti completes writing De Re Aedificatoria

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• 1450
  • Reconstruction of Sforza Castle in Milan as a palace begun
  • Tomb of Ahi Evren in Kırşehir, Anatolia, is begun
• 1451–1457 – Villa Medici in Fiesole, Tuscany, designed by Michelozzo or Leon Battista Alberti, built
• c. 1451
  • Palazzo Rucellai in Florence, probably designed by Leon Battista Alberti and executed, at least in part, by Bernardo Rossellino, substantially completed
  • Earliest date for start of construction of Jahaz Mahal in the Delhi Sultanate
• 1452 – Hospices de Beaune in France, probably designed by Jacques Wiscrère, opened
• 1456 – Ospedale Maggiore in Milan begun by Filarete.^[1]
• 1457 – Edo Castle in Japan first fortified by Ōta Dōkan
• 1458 – Pitti Palace in Florence begun by Bartolommeo Ammanati and perhaps Brunelleschi
• 1459 – Sixty Dome Mosque (Shaṭ Gombuj Moshjid) in Khalifatabad (modern-day Bagerhat District of Bangladesh) completed
• Approximate date – Palazzo Pisani Moretta on the Grand Canal (Venice) built

Births

• 1450: Bartolomeo Montagna, Italian painter and architect (died 1523)
• 1452: April 15 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath (died 1519)
• c. 1456: Bramantino, born Bartolomeo Suardi, Milanese painter and architect (died c. 1530)

Deaths

• 1459: c. October 25 – Khan Jahan Ali, Muslim Sufi saint, local ruler and architectural patron

References