1460s in architecture

Buildings

• 1460
  • Palazzo Medici in Florence, designed by Michelozzo, is completed.
  • Porto Magna in Venetian Arsenal, perhaps built by Antonio Gambello from a design by Jacopo Bellini is constructed, the first neoclassical building in Venice.
• 1462 - Reconstruction of Basilica of Sant'Andrea, Mantua in Lombardy by Leon Battista Alberti begins.
• 1463-7 - Fatih Mosque, Istanbul, designed by Atik Sinan, is constructed.

Kasımiye Medrese, Mardin

• 1464 - Neemrana fort in India is begun.
• 1466 - Ockwells Manor in Berkshire, England, is completed.^[1]
• 1466-7 - Neubrügg covered wooden bridge over the Aare between Bern and Kirchlindach is erected.
• 1468 - Rebuilding of the Palazzo Ducale, Urbino, begun by Luciano Laurana.
• 1469 - Kasımiye Medrese in Mardin, Turkey, begun before 1407, is completed.

Events

• 1461: November 26 - Severe earthquake in L'Aquila.
• c.1464 - Filarete completes his Libro architettonico, a treatise on architecture and the ideal city of Sforzinda.

Births

• c.1460
  • Benedetto Briosco, Italian sculptor and architect active in Lombardy (died 1514)
  • Marco Palmezzano, Italian painter and architect (died 1539)
  • Cristoforo Solari, Italian sculptor and architect (died 1527)
  • Bernardo Zenale, Italiano painter and architect (died 1526)

Deaths

• 1464 - Bernardo Rossellino, Florentine sculptor and architect (born 1409)
• 1466: December 13 - Donatello, Florentine sculptor (born 1386)
• c.1469 - Filarete, Florentine architect (born c.1400)

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