From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Overview of the events of 1760 in architecture
The year 1760 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- The
Laleli Mosque ("Tulip Mosque") in
Istanbul is begun (completed in
1763).
-
St. George's Cathedral, Lviv, Ukraine, designed by Bernard Meretin, is completed.
-
Servite Church, Vienna, designed by Martin Carlone, is consecrated.
-
Santa Maria della Pietà, Venice, designed by
Giorgio Massari, is completed.
-
Most Holy Trinity Church, Fulnek, Moravia, designed by Nikolaus Thalherr, is completed.
-
Østre Porsgrunn Church in
Telemark, Norway, designed by
Lauritz de Thurah and Andreas Pfützner and built by
Joen Jacobsen, is consecrated.
-
Holy Trinity Church, Warrington, England, is completed.
- Interior
rococo church decoration of the
Monastery of São Martinho de Tibães in northern Portugal, designed by
André Soares, is completed.
-
Reredos of Our Lady of Light in Christo Rey Church,
Santa Fe, New Mexico, is erected.
- Reconstruction of
St. Cyril's Monastery in
Kiev by
Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi is completed.
-
Castellania in
Valletta, completed by Giuseppe Bonnici to a design by Francesco Zerafa, is opened.
-
Edinburgh City Chambers, designed by
John Adam as the Royal Exchange, is opened.
-
Hagley Hall in Worcestershire, England, designed by
Sanderson Miller, is completed.
-
Brockdorff's Palace in
Copenhagen is completed.
-
Grassalkovich Palace in
Bratislava is built.
-
Palazzo Estense in
Varese, Lombardy, designed by
Giuseppe Bianchi, is completed.
-
Selo Mansion in
Ljubljana.
- New country house at
Sølyst (Klampenborg) near
Copenhagen is built.
-
Arno's Court Triumphal Arch in
Bristol, England, designed by
James Bridges, is built.
- In
Amalfi, at Duomo square, a
Baroque fountain is built.
- In
Cortona,
Tuscany, La Mucchia casa vacanze, a typical Tuscan farmhouse, is built by Count Passerini of Cortona.[
citation needed]
-
Stockholm Palace in
Stockholm, Sweden is completed.
- The
Old Brick Market, a "handsome expression of civic and commercial life" designed by
Peter Harrison, opens in
Newport, Rhode Island
[1]
Births
Deaths
References