1510s in architecture

Events

• 1511 - Dome of Seville Cathedral collapses.
• 1512: March 5: West tower of Pieterskerk, Leiden, collapses.

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• 1510-1520 - Tower of St Botolph's Church, Boston, England, completed.
• 1510
• * Alcázar de Colón in Santo Domingo, the 22-room home of Don Diego Columbus.
• * Sheffield Manor in Yorkshire, England.
• 1511 - All Saints' Church, Wittenberg completed to a design by Conrad Pflüger.
• 1513 - Work on New Cathedral, Salamanca, begun.
• 1514 - St Mark's Campanile in Venice completed in final form.
• 1515 - Cardinal Wolsey begins rebuilding Hampton Court Palace on the River Thames near London.
• 1515–1518 - Ancienne Douane (Haguenau) built.
• About 1515 - In England
• * King's College Chapel, Cambridge completed by John Wastell.
• * Spire of St James' Church, Louth, Lincolnshire completed.
• 1517 - Shisha Gumbad tomb in Delhi, India, completed.
• 1518
• * Tomb of Sikandar Lodi, Delhi, India, completed.
• * Town walls of Loreto, Marche, begun by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger.
• 1519
• * Belém Tower at the mouth of the Tagus in Portugal completed.
• * St. Olaf's Church, Tallinn in Estonia completed.

Births

• 1511: July 3 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and biographer
• 1511 – Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian sculptor and architect
• 1512 – Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect
• c.1513 – Pirro Ligorio, Italian architect and painter

Deaths

• 1511 – Simón de Colonia, Spanish architect and sculptor
• 1514: March 11 – Donato Bramante, Italian architect
• 1515
• * April 10 – Mateus Fernandes, Portuguese architect
• * Giovanni Giocondo, Italian friar, architect and classical scholar
• c. 1516 – Giuliano da Sangallo, Florentine sculptor, architect and military engineer
• 1518 – John Wastell, English architect
• 1519: May 2 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath