Overview of the events of the 1490s in architecture
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- 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
- The Friends of Sherborne Abbey (May 1959). The Abbey Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Sherborne (12th ed.). Sawtells of Sherborne.
- Sutton, Ian (1999). Architecture, from Ancient Greece to the Present. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-20316-3.