1590s in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• 1590
• * Sinan Pasha Mosque in Damascus, Syria, is completed.
• * Court theatre at Sabbioneta, designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, is completed.
• * Church of Tolentini, Venice, Italy, is designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi; it will not be completed until 1714.
• 1590–1595 – Belvedere (fort) in Florence, Italy, designed by Bernardo Buontalenti, is constructed.
• 1590–1597 – Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire, England, designed by Robert Smythson, is constructed.
• 1591
• * Rialto Bridge in Venice, designed by Antonio da Ponte, is completed.
• * Church of San Salvatore in Lauro in Rome is designed by Ottaviano Nonni.
• 1592 – Fushimi Castle in Kyoto, Japan was begun.
• 1592 – Church of Il Redentore on Giudecca in Venice, designed by Andrea Palladio, is consecrated.
• 1592 - Crooked House of Windsor original butcher-shop building, demolished 1687, but rebuilt exactly the same way after legal complications.
• 1596 – Villa Ferretti in the Veneto, designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, is built.
• 1596? – Kasthamandap temple in Kathmandu, Nepal.
• 1593–1597 – Rushton Triangular Lodge in Northamptonshire, England, is designed and constructed by Sir Thomas Tresham, symbolising his Catholic recusancy.
• 1597
• * Villa Molin in the Veneto, designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, is completed.
• * Newark Castle on the Firth of Clyde in Scotland is rebuilt.
• * Ālī Qāpū imperial palace, Isfahan, Iran, is first used ceremonially.
• 1599 – In Padua, renovation begins on the Palazzo del Capitaniato arch and clock tower.

Events

• 1590: Giovanni Antonio Rusconi's Della architettura is published posthumously in Venice.
• 1592: May 23 – Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98) begin, leading to the destruction by fire of many Korean buildings.

Births

• 1591: December 22 – Tommaso Dingli, Maltese architect
• 1596
• * November 1 – Pietro da Cortona, Italian baroque architect and painter
• * Francesco Buonamici, Italian Baroque architect, painter and engraver
• 1598
• * January 13 – François Mansart, French baroque architect
• * December 7 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian baroque architect, sculptor and painter
• * Baldassarre Longhena, Venetian baroque architect
• 1599: September 25 – Francesco Borromini, Ticinese-born baroque architect

Deaths

• 1592: April 13 – Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian architect and sculptor
• c.1592 – Girolamo Cassar, Maltese architect
• 1595 – Antonio da Ponte, Swiss-born Venetian architect
• 1597: January 15 – Juan de Herrera, Spanish architect and geometrician