1570s in architecture

Buildings

Palazzo del Capitaniato, Vicenza

• 1570–1575 - Palazzo Barbaran da Porto in Vicenza (in the Veneto), designed by Andrea Palladio, is built.
• 1571 - Buildings begun in 1568 are completed:
  • The Green Gate in Gdańsk, designed by Regnier (or Reiner) van Amsterdam.
  • The Hall of Antiquities (Antiquarium) in the Munich Residenz, designed by Wilhelm Egkl and Jacopo Strada.
• 1571–1572 - Loggia of Palazzo del Capitaniato in Vicenza, designed by Palladio, is built.
• c. 1572 - Completion of work (part of main courtyard) at Villa Serego, Santa Sofia di Pedemonte in the province of Verona, designed by Palladio.
• 1574 - The Selimiye Mosque (Edirne), designed by Mimar Sinan and begun in 1568, is completed.
• 1576 - The Pagoda of Cishou Temple in the suburbs of Beijing is completed.
• 1576–1577 Design for church of Il Redentore on Giudecca in Venice commissioned from Palladio and construction begins.
• Fatehpur Sikri in the Mughal Empire is completed.

Events

• 1570 - Andrea Palladio publishes I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura (The Four Books of Architecture).
• 1578 - Giacomo della Porta builds a fountain in front of the Pantheon, Rome.

Fatehpur Sikri

Births

• 1573: July 15 - Inigo Jones, English architect and theatrical designer (died 1652)

Deaths

• 1570
  • January 8 - Philibert de l'Orme, French architect (born c. 1510)
  • October 20 - Francesco Laparelli, Italian architect and engineer (born 1521)
  • November 27 - Jacopo Sansovino, Italian architect and sculptor (born 1486)
• 1572: December 30 - Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (born 1512)
• 1573: July 7 - Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian mannerist architect (born 1507)
• 1574: June 27 - Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, architect and art historian (born 1511)
• 1578: September - Pierre Lescot, French architect (born 1510)