1510s in architecture

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Events[]

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

Buildings and structures[]

Buildings[]

Turret House at Sheffield Manor

Belém Tower

• 1510–1520 – Tower ("Stump") of St Botolph's Church, Boston, England, completed.
• 1510
  • Alcázar de Colón ("Columbus' Palace") in Santo Domingo, the 22-room home of Don Diego Columbus.
  • Sheffield Manor in Yorkshire, England.
• 1511 – All Saints' Church, Wittenberg (Schloßkirche) 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 (died 1574)
• 1511 – Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian sculptor and architect (died 1592)
• 1512 – Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (died 1572)
• c.1513 – Pirro Ligorio, Italian architect and painter (died 1583)

Deaths[]

• 1511 – Simón de Colonia, Spanish architect and sculptor
• 1514: March 11 – Donato Bramante, Italian architect (born 1444)
• 1515
  • April 10 – Mateus Fernandes, Portuguese architect
  • Giovanni Giocondo, Italian friar, architect and classical scholar (born c. 1433)
• c. 1516 – Giuliano da Sangallo, Florentine sculptor, architect and military engineer (born 1443)
• 1518 – John Wastell, English architect (born 1460)
• 1519: May 2 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath (born 1452)