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1700 In Architecture
The year 1700 in architecture involved some significant events. Events * March 27 – François de Rohan, prince de Soubise, buys the Hôtel de Clisson, which is subsequently remodelled by Pierre-Alexis Delamair. * A new facade is built on the Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter Apostle at Frascati, Italy. Buildings and structures Buildings completed * Brown House, Rehoboth, Massachusetts, USA * Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca, Santiago de Cuba (begun 1638), by Giovanni Battista Antonelli * DeWint House, Tappan, New York, USA, by Daniel DeClark * Federal Hall, New York City * Hill Court Manor, Ross-on-Wye, England * Rossie House, Angus, Scotland, by Alexander Edward * Slushko Palace, Vilnius, Lithuania (begun c.1690), by Giovanni Pietro Perti * Tessin Palace, Stockholm (begun 1694), by Nicodemus Tessin the Younger * Upper Chapel, Sheffield, England, by followers of Timothy Jollie * Wren Building, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA (begun 1695) B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Pietro Perti
Giovanni Pietro Perti or Peretti (1648 – 1714) was an Italian Baroque sculptor and architect, regarded as one of the leading European sculptors on the verge of the 18th century. He has been an Elder (administrative title), elder of Šnipiškės and Antakalnis suburbs governed by Sapiehas. Living in Canton Ticino, Perti, as a sculptor of ''comasco school'', was influenced by an Italian master Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Educated in Florence and invited to Vilnius by Michał Kazimierz Pac, Perti has spent most of his life in the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania working for magnate families. He became famous for the stucco decorations of St. Peter and St. Paul Church (Vilnius), St. Peter and St. Paul's Church (1677–82), considered the Baroque architecture#Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Lithuanian Baroque masterpiece. He worked together with Giovanni Maria Galli who added the ornamentations around sculptures by Perti. Perti served in the manor of the Hetmans of Polish-Lithuani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1753 In Architecture
The year 1753 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings * Horse Guards in London, designed by William Kent and John Vardy, is completed. * State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed by Edmund Woolley and Andrew Hamilton, is completed. * New Branicki Palace, Warsaw, designed by Johann Sigmund Deybel, is completed. * First stage of Horace Walpole's Gothic Revival 'castle' at Strawberry Hill House near London is completed. * Kastrupgård in Copenhagen, designed by Jacob Fortling for himself, is completed. * Carlyle House, Alexandria, Virginia, is completed. * Cuvilliés Theatre in the Munich Residenz, Bavaria, designed by François de Cuvilliés, is opened. * Schlosstheater Schwetzingen in Schwetzingen Palace, Baden-Württemberg, designed by Nicolas de Pigage, is opened. * Confidencen theatre in Ulriksdal Palace, Sweden, with interior completed by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, is opened. * Teatro Carignano in Turin, designed b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Hårleman
Baron Carl Hårleman (27 August 1700 – 9 February 1753) was a Sweden, Swedish architect. Biography Hårleman was born in Stockholm, son of the garden architect and head of the royal parks and gardens Johan Hårleman, who had been Ennoblement, ennobled in 1698. He began his architectural training under Göran Josua Adelcrantz (1668–1739). After receiving a state scholarship, he left Sweden for studies abroad in 1721, first going to Paris, where he spent four years as a student at the Académie royale d'architecture, Royal French Academy of Architecture and the French Academy of Art. He later continued to Italy and was called back to Sweden while in Venice in 1727. In 1728, upon the death of Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, Hårleman was appointed court intendant and subsequently in 1741, after Tessin's son Carl Gustaf Tessin had been made a member of the privy council, his successor as court superintendent. He was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1744 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August 27
Events Pre-1600 * 410 – The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days. * 1172 – Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned junior king and queen of England. * 1232 – Shikken Hojo Yasutoki of the Kamakura shogunate promulgates the Goseibai Shikimoku, the first Japanese legal code governing the '' samurai'' class. * 1353 – War of the Straits and Sardinian–Aragonese war: The Battle of Alghero results in a crushing victory of the allied Aragonese and Venetian fleet over the Genoese fleet, most of which is captured. * 1557 – The Battle of St. Quentin results in Emmanuel Philibert becoming Duke of Savoy. * 1593 – Pierre Barrière failed an attempt to assassinate Henry IV of France. * 1597 – Jeongyu War: Battle of Chilcheollyang: A Japanese fleet of 500 ships destroys Joseon commander Wŏn Kyun's fleet of 200 ships at Chilcheollyang. * 1600 – Ishida Mitsunari's Western Army commences the Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1773 In Architecture
The year 1773 in architecture involved some significant events. Events * July 30 – Following the discovery of the iron waters in the civil parish of Fraião, archbishop D. Gaspar de Bragança orders the municipal council to proceed with the use of the waters. The municipal government contracts master mason Paulo Vidal (a resident of Adaúfe) to construct a fountain for 80$000 réis.''"for the people with better hygiene, comfort and seclusion to serve from the said water"''. * Caspar Frederik Harsdorff is commissioned to redesign the Hercules Pavilion at Rosenborg Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark. His design with niches and statues gives the building its current name. * Domenico Merlini becomes the Royal Architect in Poland. Buildings and structures Buildings completed * Pulteney Bridge in Bath, England, designed by Robert Adam. * St. Hedwig's Cathedral, Berlin, Germany. Births * August 30 – Mihály Pollack, Hungarian Neoclassical architect (died 1855) Deaths * March 1 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Vanvitelli
Luigi Vanvitelli (; 12 May 1700 – 1 March 1773), known in Dutch as (), was an Italian architect and painter. The most prominent 18th-century architect of Italy, he practised a sober classicising academic Late Baroque style that made an easy transition to Neoclassicism. Biography Early years and education Vanvitelli was born in Naples, the son of an Italian woman, Anna Lorenzani, and a Dutch painter of land and cityscapes (''veduta''), Caspar van Wittel, who also used the name Vanvitelli. Luigi began his career as a history painter, and from 1724 he was employed as a copyist in the fabbrica of St Peter’s in Rome. The extent of his academic training is not clear, but under Antonio Valeri (1648–1736), who succeeded Carlo Fontana as architetto soprastante, Vanvitelli discovered his talent as an architect. Ultimately, however, Valeri was a less significant influence on his work than Fontana or Filippo Juvarra. His first patron was the prefect Cardinal Annibale Albani. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May 12
Events Pre-1600 * 254 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd pope of the Catholic Church, and immediately takes a stand against Novatianism. * 907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang dynasty after nearly three hundred years of rule. * 1191 – Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre in Cyprus; she is crowned Queen consort of England the same day. * 1328 – Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice. *1364 – Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, is founded in Kraków. * 1497 – Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola. *1510 – The Prince of Anhua rebellion begins when Zhu Zhifan kills all the officials invited to a banquet and declares his intent on ousting the powerful Ming dynasty eunuch Liu Jin during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor. * 1551 – National University of San Marcos, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Williamsburg, Virginia
Williamsburg is an Independent city (United States), independent city in Virginia, United States. It had a population of 15,425 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Located on the Virginia Peninsula, Williamsburg is in the northern part of the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. It is bordered by James City County, Virginia, James City County on the west and south and York County, Virginia, York County on the east. English settlers founded Williamsburg in 1632 as Middle Plantation (Virginia), Middle Plantation, a fortified settlement on high ground between the James River, James and York River (Virginia), York rivers, and farther inland than their headquarters at Jamestown, Virginia, Jamestown. The city functioned as the capital of the Colony of Virginia, Colony and Commonwealth of Virginia from 1699 to 1780 and became the center of political events in Virginia leading to the American Revolution. The College of William & Mary, established in 1693, is the second-oldest inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
College Of William & Mary
The College of William & Mary (abbreviated as W&M) is a public university, public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. Founded in 1693 under a royal charter issued by King William III of England, William III and Queen Mary II, it is the second-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, and the ninth-oldest in the English-speaking world. William & Mary is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classified among "''R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity''". One of the original nine Colonial colleges, colonial colleges, W&M remained a central institution in Southern elite culture and American political history. Its academic reputation, historic legacy, and role in American political development have established it as one of the most distinguished universities in the United States. By the 18th century, William & Mary had become a key intellectual center of colonial America. Its contributions to law, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wren Building
The Wren Building (original build, 1695–1699) is the oldest building on the campus of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, which is the "second oldest seat of higher learning" in the United States. Situated in Old College Yard—of William & Mary's "Ancient Campus", near the more contemporary Merchants Square east of campus—the frequently visited Wren Building anchors that Campus, with its forecourt defined by two further old structures, Brafferton (built in 1723 as an Indian school) and the President's House (completed in 1733). Its architecture is considered Georgian, and as a building in use by The College, and with a cornerstone laid in 1695, it is the oldest of academic buildings still standing and in use in the United States, and among the oldest buildings in Virginia. The Wren Building was designated a National Historic Landmark on October 9, 1960, and has appeared in the Virginia Landmarks Register since September 9, 1969. The cornerstone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Jollie
Timothy Jollie, (c. 1659–1714), was a nonconformist minister and notable educator in the north of England. Biography Timothy Jollie, son of Thomas Jollie, was born at Altham, Accrington, Lancashire, about 1659. On 27 August 1673 he entered the dissenting academy of Richard Frankland at Rathmell, Yorkshire. He left it in December 1675 to study in London, where he became a member of the independent church at Girdlers' Hall, Basinghall Street, under George Griffith. In 1679 he was called to an independent church in a newly erected meeting-house at Snig Hall, Sheffield. He was ordained on 28 April 1681 by his father, with Oliver Heywood and two other ministers, at the house of Abel Yates in Sheffield. Heywood notes the occasion as remarkable, seeing that an independent church, with but two objectors, allowed their pastor to be ordained by presbyters. In 1682 Jollie was arrested under the Five Miles Act, fined £20, taken to York, and bound over to appear at the next assizes. Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
