1490s in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• St Edmund's Church, Southwold in England is completed.
• Church of St. Valentin, Kiedrich in Hesse (Germany) is completed.
• 1490
  • Bara Gumbad in Delhi is built.
  • Probable completion of rebuilding of Sherborne Abbey choir, England, with a Perpendicular style fan vault by William Smyth.
  • All Saints' Church, Wittenberg (Schloßkirche), designed by Conrad Pflüger, begun.
  • Former Nea Ekklesia church in Constantinople destroyed by a lightning strike.
• 1493 – Tomb of Bibi Jawindi at Uch in the Punjab region is built.
• 1495 – Monastery of Jesus of Setúbal in Portugal, designed by Diogo de Boitaca, is completed.
• 1497 – Rebuilding of Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford in England is completed.
• 1497 – Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy is completed.
• 1498 – Church of St Martin, Landshut, Bavaria (Germany) is completed by Hans von Burghausen.
• 1499
  • Garden loggia and external spiral staircase at Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo in Venice, probably designed by Giorgio Spavento, completed.
  • Start of construction of Abbaye de la Trinité, Vendôme.

Births

• c. 1495 – Diego Siloe, Spanish Renaissance architect and sculptor (died 1563)

Deaths

• 1490 – William Smyth, English architect
• c. 1493 – Enna Swarviski (born c. 1427)
• 1494 (last record) – Luca Fancelli, Italian architect and sculptor (born c. 1430)

References

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