1540s in architecture
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Events
- 1545 - Part of the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice collapses, causing the architect, Jacopo Sansovino, to be imprisoned briefly.
- 1546 - Michelangelo Buonarroti is made chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
Buildings
- 1542 - Andrea Palladio completes his first commission at Villa Godi, first of his Palladian villas of Veneto
- 1543 - Lighthouse of Genoa completed in present form
- 1544 - King's College Chapel, Cambridge completed
Births
- September 2, 1548 - Vincenzo Scamozzi (died 1616)
Deaths
- August 3, 1546 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (born 1484)
- November 1, 1546 - Giulio Romano (born c. 1449)
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