1500s in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• c. 1500 – Chateau de Blois largely rebuilt.
• 1500 – St. Anne's Church, Vilnius is completed.
• 1501
• * Expansion of Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh.
• * Chichester Cross is built in Chichester, England.
• * Construction of the Jerónimos Monastery at Belém in Portugal begins; it will take 100 years to complete.
• * Construction of spire of St James' Church, Louth, Lincolnshire, England begins; it will take until c.1515 to complete.
• 1501/2 – Construction of the Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa in the Duchy of Braganza begins.
• 1502
• * Tempietto, San Pietro in Montorio, Rome, designed by Donato Bramante, is built.
• * Construction of St. Mary's Church, Gdańsk, begun in 1379 by Heinrich Ungeradin, is completed with the installation of vaulting by Heinrich Haetzl.
• * Vladislav Hall in Prague Castle, designed by Benedikt Rejt, is completed.
• * Expansion of Great Malvern Priory in England is completed.
• 1503 – All Saints' Church, Wittenberg is consecrated.
• 1504 – Matsumoto Castle in Japan built.

• 1505 – Archangel Cathedral in Moscow begun.
• 1505–1508 – Fondaco dei Tedeschi on the Grand Canal rebuilt by Fra Giovanni Giocondo.
• 1506 – Construction of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome to the design of Bramante begins.
• 1507
• * Seville Cathedral consecrated.
• * Construction of the church of Santa Maria di Loreto, Rome, to the design of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger begins.
• * Rebuilding of Wawel Castle in Kraków begins.
• 1508
• * Church of San Rocco, Venice, designed by Bartolomeo Bon, begun in 1489, is completed.
• * Church of Santa Maria della Consolazione is begun.
• 1509
• * Palazzo Loredan on the Grand Canal, begun by Mauro Codussi in 1481, is completed.
• * :File:Fuggerkapelle 01.JPG|Fugger Chapel of St. Anne's Church, Augsburg, Swabia, is begun.

  Events

• 1503: November 1 – Pope Julius II becomes Pope; he will be patron to Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo.

Births

• 1507: October 1 – Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian Mannerist architect
• 1508: November 30 – Andrea Palladio, Italian architect

  Deaths

• c. 1501 – Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Sienese painter, sculptor, architect and military engineer
• 1503: June 24 – Reginald Bray, English Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and architect
• c. 1506/07 – Conrad Pflüger, Swabian architect